The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 7Thomas M'Lean, 1827 |
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... less than one hundred and forty days journey ; on the sea a whole year * must elapse before you can receive any intelligence from your fleet . If Africa should be reduced , it cannot be preserved without the additional conquest of ...
... less than one hundred and forty days journey ; on the sea a whole year * must elapse before you can receive any intelligence from your fleet . If Africa should be reduced , it cannot be preserved without the additional conquest of ...
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... less , " said the general , " on the numbers , or even the bravery of my troops , than upon the friendly dispo- sition of the natives , and their immortal hatred to the Vandals . You alone can deprive me of this hope : if you continue ...
... less , " said the general , " on the numbers , or even the bravery of my troops , than upon the friendly dispo- sition of the natives , and their immortal hatred to the Vandals . You alone can deprive me of this hope : if you continue ...
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... less , if they attracted the popular veneration ; but the active mind of Belisarius , which in the pride of victory could suppose a defeat , had already resolved , that the Roman empire in Africa should not depend on the chance of arms ...
... less , if they attracted the popular veneration ; but the active mind of Belisarius , which in the pride of victory could suppose a defeat , had already resolved , that the Roman empire in Africa should not depend on the chance of arms ...
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... less inconsistency to a private general . + If the Ecclesiastes be truly a work of Solomon , and not , like Prior's poem , a pious and moral composition of more recent times , in his name , and on the subject of his repentance . The ...
... less inconsistency to a private general . + If the Ecclesiastes be truly a work of Solomon , and not , like Prior's poem , a pious and moral composition of more recent times , in his name , and on the subject of his repentance . The ...
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... less ad- venturous , still wandered in their native forests . It was impossible for cowards to surmount the barriers whom he had been so conspicuously known , appear to have lost their eyes or their memory . * Shaw , p . 59. Yet since ...
... less ad- venturous , still wandered in their native forests . It was impossible for cowards to surmount the barriers whom he had been so conspicuously known , appear to have lost their eyes or their memory . * Shaw , p . 59. Yet since ...
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