The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Band 3Cadell & Davies; J. Johnson; F. & C. Rivington; ... [and 32 others], 1807 |
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... youth of Italy , and the provinces , chofe to cut off the fingers of their right hand to escape from being preffed into the service ; and this ftrange ex- pedient was so commonly practifed , as to deferve the fevere animadverfion of the ...
... youth of Italy , and the provinces , chofe to cut off the fingers of their right hand to escape from being preffed into the service ; and this ftrange ex- pedient was so commonly practifed , as to deferve the fevere animadverfion of the ...
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... youths , to read his ora- tions or epiftles in the affemblies of the fenate 147 . The practice of Auguftus was imitated ... youth and inexperience of the quæftors , who entered on that important office in their twenty - fifth year ( Lipf ...
... youths , to read his ora- tions or epiftles in the affemblies of the fenate 147 . The practice of Auguftus was imitated ... youth and inexperience of the quæftors , who entered on that important office in their twenty - fifth year ( Lipf ...
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... youth , were alike expofed to the moft cruel tortures ; and the terrors of a mali cious information , which might felect them as the accomplices , or even as the witneffes , perhaps , of an imaginary crime , perpetually hung over the ...
... youth , were alike expofed to the moft cruel tortures ; and the terrors of a mali cious information , which might felect them as the accomplices , or even as the witneffes , perhaps , of an imaginary crime , perpetually hung over the ...
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... youth , to a very advanced season of life , he preferved the vi- gour of his conftitution by a strict adherence to the domeftic virtues of chastity and temperance . He delighted in the focial intercourfe of familiar converfation ; and ...
... youth , to a very advanced season of life , he preferved the vi- gour of his conftitution by a strict adherence to the domeftic virtues of chastity and temperance . He delighted in the focial intercourfe of familiar converfation ; and ...
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... youth and folly of Elagabalus , we are at a lofs to discover the wifdom of an aged monarch , and the fimplicity of a Roman veteran " . mind thus relaxed by profperity and indulgence , was incapable of rifing to that magnanimity which ...
... youth and folly of Elagabalus , we are at a lofs to discover the wifdom of an aged monarch , and the fimplicity of a Roman veteran " . mind thus relaxed by profperity and indulgence , was incapable of rifing to that magnanimity which ...
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