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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... provinces 1310-1523 . The knights of Rhodes 1341-1347 . First passage of the Turks into Europe 1346 Marriage of Orchan with a Greek princess 1353 Establishment of the Ottomans in Europe Death of Orchan and his son Soliman 1360-1389 ...
... provinces 1310-1523 . The knights of Rhodes 1341-1347 . First passage of the Turks into Europe 1346 Marriage of Orchan with a Greek princess 1353 Establishment of the Ottomans in Europe Death of Orchan and his son Soliman 1360-1389 ...
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... province the courage of a soldier and the conduct of a chief ; and Nicephorus was crowned with recent laurels , from the important conquest of the isle of Crete . His religion was of a more ambiguous cast ; and his hair - cloth , his ...
... province the courage of a soldier and the conduct of a chief ; and Nicephorus was crowned with recent laurels , from the important conquest of the isle of Crete . His religion was of a more ambiguous cast ; and his hair - cloth , his ...
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... provinces had been torn from his hands , and that he was ready to abdicate a dignity which he was unable to support . The emir was inexorable ; the furniture of the palace was sold ; and the paltry price of forty thou- sand pieces of ...
... provinces had been torn from his hands , and that he was ready to abdicate a dignity which he was unable to support . The emir was inexorable ; the furniture of the palace was sold ; and the paltry price of forty thou- sand pieces of ...
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... provinces . Constantinople , under the government of Nicephorus , was threatened by the Russians . The name of that nation was first divulged in the ninth century , by an embassy from Theo- philus , emperor of the East , to Lewis , the ...
... provinces . Constantinople , under the government of Nicephorus , was threatened by the Russians . The name of that nation was first divulged in the ninth century , by an embassy from Theo- philus , emperor of the East , to Lewis , the ...
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... provinces . The memory of these Arctic fleets left a deep impression of terror on the Imperial city ; and by the vulgar of every rank it was asserted and believed , that an equestrian statue in the square of Taurus was secretly ...
... provinces . The memory of these Arctic fleets left a deep impression of terror on the Imperial city ; and by the vulgar of every rank it was asserted and believed , that an equestrian statue in the square of Taurus was secretly ...
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