The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 7Thomas M'Lean, 1827 |
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... soldiers could no longer maintain , was firmly asserted by her statesmen and lawyers , whose opinions have been sometimes re- vived and propagated in the modern schools of juris- prudence . After Rome herself had been stripped of the ...
... soldiers could no longer maintain , was firmly asserted by her statesmen and lawyers , whose opinions have been sometimes re- vived and propagated in the modern schools of juris- prudence . After Rome herself had been stripped of the ...
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... soldiers more loudly complained that he had degenerated from the cou- rage , of his ancestors . - His ambassadors were sus- pected of a secret and disgraceful negotiation in the Byzantine court ; and his general , the Achilles † , he ...
... soldiers more loudly complained that he had degenerated from the cou- rage , of his ancestors . - His ambassadors were sus- pected of a secret and disgraceful negotiation in the Byzantine court ; and his general , the Achilles † , he ...
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... soldiers which he had consumed in a barren victory . But the fame of Belisarius was not sullied by a defeat , in which alone he had saved his army from the consequences of their own rash- ness : the approach of peace relieved him from ...
... soldiers which he had consumed in a barren victory . But the fame of Belisarius was not sullied by a defeat , in which alone he had saved his army from the consequences of their own rash- ness : the approach of peace relieved him from ...
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... soldiers of his own time against the morose critics , who confined that respectable name to the heavy - armed warriors of antiquity , and maliciously observed , that the word archer is intro- duced by Homer * as a term of contempt ...
... soldiers of his own time against the morose critics , who confined that respectable name to the heavy - armed warriors of antiquity , and maliciously observed , that the word archer is intro- duced by Homer * as a term of contempt ...
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... soldiers and sailors , of five thousand horses , of arms , engines , and military stores , and of a sufficient stock of water and provisions for a voyage , perhaps , of three months . The proud galleys , which in former ages swept the ...
... soldiers and sailors , of five thousand horses , of arms , engines , and military stores , and of a sufficient stock of water and provisions for a voyage , perhaps , of three months . The proud galleys , which in former ages swept the ...
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