Gibbon's History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, repr. with the omission of all passages of an irreligious or immoral tendency, by T. Bowdler, Volume 51826 |
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... numbers Siege of Nice Battle of Dorylæum March through the Lesser Asia 1097--1151 . Baldwin founds the principality of Edessa 1097-1098 . Siege of Antioch 1098 Victory of the crusaders Their famine and distress at Antioch The state of ...
... numbers Siege of Nice Battle of Dorylæum March through the Lesser Asia 1097--1151 . Baldwin founds the principality of Edessa 1097-1098 . Siege of Antioch 1098 Victory of the crusaders Their famine and distress at Antioch The state of ...
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... number of the beasts of burthen , the superfluous remainder was burnt ; and after a licentious possession of ten days , the Romans marched away from the naked and bleeding city . In their Syrian inroads they com- manded the husbandmen ...
... number of the beasts of burthen , the superfluous remainder was burnt ; and after a licentious possession of ten days , the Romans marched away from the naked and bleeding city . In their Syrian inroads they com- manded the husbandmen ...
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... number were Constantine Constantine the Tenth , and the epithet of Monoma- machus , chus , the single combatant , must have been expres- A. D. 1042 , sive of his valour and victory in some public or pri- vate quarrel . But his health ...
... number were Constantine Constantine the Tenth , and the epithet of Monoma- machus , chus , the single combatant , must have been expres- A. D. 1042 , sive of his valour and victory in some public or pri- vate quarrel . But his health ...
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... number of enemies whom he had sent to the infernal shades . The sol- diers had served with reluctant loyalty a series of effeminate masters , the elevation of Michael the Sixth was a personal insult to the more deserving generals , and ...
... number of enemies whom he had sent to the infernal shades . The sol- diers had served with reluctant loyalty a series of effeminate masters , the elevation of Michael the Sixth was a personal insult to the more deserving generals , and ...
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... numbers of the Greeks ; August . and in the defeat of Basilacius , one of their principal generals , he displayed the first example of his valour and clemency . The imprudence of the emperor had separated his forces after the reduction ...
... numbers of the Greeks ; August . and in the defeat of Basilacius , one of their principal generals , he displayed the first example of his valour and clemency . The imprudence of the emperor had separated his forces after the reduction ...
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