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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... royal birth of their children was expressed by the appellation of por- phyrogenite , or born in the purple . Several of the Roman princes had been blessed with an heir ; but this peculiar surname was first applied to Constan- tine the ...
... royal birth of their children was expressed by the appellation of por- phyrogenite , or born in the purple . Several of the Roman princes had been blessed with an heir ; but this peculiar surname was first applied to Constan- tine the ...
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... royal banquet . His loyal adherents were alarmed ; and the two usurpers were prevented , seized , degraded from the purple , and embarked for the same island and monastery where their father had been so lately confined . Old Romanus met ...
... royal banquet . His loyal adherents were alarmed ; and the two usurpers were prevented , seized , degraded from the purple , and embarked for the same island and monastery where their father had been so lately confined . Old Romanus met ...
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... royal city of Aleppo was subject to Seifeddowlat , of the dynasty of Hamadan , who clouded his past glory by the precipitate retreat which abandoned his kingdom and capital to the Roman invaders . In his stately palace , that stood ...
... royal city of Aleppo was subject to Seifeddowlat , of the dynasty of Hamadan , who clouded his past glory by the precipitate retreat which abandoned his kingdom and capital to the Roman invaders . In his stately palace , that stood ...
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... royal pupil to sleep in the palace . His long and frequent expeditions against the Saracens were rather glorious than useful to the empire ; but the final destruction of the kingdom of Bulgaria appears , since the time of Belisarius ...
... royal pupil to sleep in the palace . His long and frequent expeditions against the Saracens were rather glorious than useful to the empire ; but the final destruction of the kingdom of Bulgaria appears , since the time of Belisarius ...
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... royal race , a new and broken scene pre- sents itself , and the accumulated years of twelve em- perors do not equal the space of his single reign . His elder brother had preferred his private chastity to the public interest , and ...
... royal race , a new and broken scene pre- sents itself , and the accumulated years of twelve em- perors do not equal the space of his single reign . His elder brother had preferred his private chastity to the public interest , and ...
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