The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 9W. Allason, 1819 - Byzantine Empire |
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... province of France or England : but after the trophies of Salamis and Platea , they expand in our fancy to the gigantic size of Asia , which had been trampled under the feet of the victorious Greeks . But the sub- jects of the Byzantine ...
... province of France or England : but after the trophies of Salamis and Platea , they expand in our fancy to the gigantic size of Asia , which had been trampled under the feet of the victorious Greeks . But the sub- jects of the Byzantine ...
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... provinces was immediately replenished with new colonies . and rising kingdoms : the active virtues of peace and war deserted from the vanquished to the victorious nations ; and it is in their origin and conquests , in their religion and ...
... provinces was immediately replenished with new colonies . and rising kingdoms : the active virtues of peace and war deserted from the vanquished to the victorious nations ; and it is in their origin and conquests , in their religion and ...
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... provinces and the capital ; but the last of these , so im- portant in their present greatness , will excite some curiosity in their origin and infancy . VI . The NORMANS ; or rather the private ad- ventures of that warlike people , who ...
... provinces and the capital ; but the last of these , so im- portant in their present greatness , will excite some curiosity in their origin and infancy . VI . The NORMANS ; or rather the private ad- ventures of that warlike people , who ...
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... provinces . After the death of Eudocia , his first wife , he disobeyed the patriarch , and vio- lated the laws , by his second marriage with his niece Martina ; and his superstition of the Greeks beheld the judgment of heaven in the ...
... provinces . After the death of Eudocia , his first wife , he disobeyed the patriarch , and vio- lated the laws , by his second marriage with his niece Martina ; and his superstition of the Greeks beheld the judgment of heaven in the ...
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Edward Gibbon. XLVIII . CHAP . trusty servant to arm the troops and provinces of the East in the defence of his helpless chil . dren : the eloquence and liberality of Valentin had been successful , and , from his camp of Chalcedon , he ...
Edward Gibbon. XLVIII . CHAP . trusty servant to arm the troops and provinces of the East in the defence of his helpless chil . dren : the eloquence and liberality of Valentin had been successful , and , from his camp of Chalcedon , he ...
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