The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 3Tourneisen, 1787 - 403 pages |
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... thousand years before his reign , Darius had chofen the fame fituation to connect the two continents by a bridge of boats . At a fmall diftance from the old caftles we discover the little town of Chryfopolis , or Scutari , which may ...
... thousand years before his reign , Darius had chofen the fame fituation to connect the two continents by a bridge of boats . At a fmall diftance from the old caftles we discover the little town of Chryfopolis , or Scutari , which may ...
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... thousand English acres . It is impoffible to justify the vain and credulous exaggerations of modern travellers , who have fometimes ftretched the limits of Conftanti- nople over the adjacent villages of the European , and even of the ...
... thousand English acres . It is impoffible to justify the vain and credulous exaggerations of modern travellers , who have fometimes ftretched the limits of Conftanti- nople over the adjacent villages of the European , and even of the ...
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... thousand pounds for the conftruction of the walls , the porticoes , and the aqueducts " . The forefts that overshadowed the shores of the Euxine and the celebrated quarries of white marble in the little island of Proconnefus , fupplied ...
... thousand pounds for the conftruction of the walls , the porticoes , and the aqueducts " . The forefts that overshadowed the shores of the Euxine and the celebrated quarries of white marble in the little island of Proconnefus , fupplied ...
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... thousand pounds of gold , ( about ) one hundred and fixty thousand pounds fterling : and if fo hea- vy an expence furpaffed the faculties or the incli- nation of the magiftrates themselves , the fum was fupplied from the Imperial ...
... thousand pounds of gold , ( about ) one hundred and fixty thousand pounds fterling : and if fo hea- vy an expence furpaffed the faculties or the incli- nation of the magiftrates themselves , the fum was fupplied from the Imperial ...
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... thousand men , they fubfifted , under the reign of Diocletian , each of them fingly , a visible and important object in the military hif tory of the Roman empire . A few years after- wards , these gigantic bodies were shrunk to a very ...
... thousand men , they fubfifted , under the reign of Diocletian , each of them fingly , a visible and important object in the military hif tory of the Roman empire . A few years after- wards , these gigantic bodies were shrunk to a very ...
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