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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... Successor Saladin takes Jerusalem . - The Second Crusade . - The Emperor Conrade and Louis the Seventh . - The Third Crusade . - Frederick Bar- barossa . - Philip Augustus . - Richard the First . - Siege and Conquest of Acre . - The ...
... Successor Saladin takes Jerusalem . - The Second Crusade . - The Emperor Conrade and Louis the Seventh . - The Third Crusade . - Frederick Bar- barossa . - Philip Augustus . - Richard the First . - Siege and Conquest of Acre . - The ...
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... successors of Zingis 1240-1304 . Escape of Constantinople and the Greek empire from the Moguls 1304 Decline of the Mogul khans of Persia ib . · • 293 ib . 294 ib . ib . ib . 295 ib . 297 1240 Origin of the Ottomans 1299-1326 . Reign of ...
... successors of Zingis 1240-1304 . Escape of Constantinople and the Greek empire from the Moguls 1304 Decline of the Mogul khans of Persia ib . · • 293 ib . 294 ib . ib . ib . 295 ib . 297 1240 Origin of the Ottomans 1299-1326 . Reign of ...
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... successor . Yet the birth and misfortunes of Constantine had en- deared him to the Greeks : they excused his failings ; they respected his learning , his innocence and charity , his love of justice ; and the ceremony of his funeral was ...
... successor . Yet the birth and misfortunes of Constantine had en- deared him to the Greeks : they excused his failings ; they respected his learning , his innocence and charity , his love of justice ; and the ceremony of his funeral was ...
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... successor . Hypocrisy I shall never justify or palliate ; but I will dare to observe that the odious vice of avarice is of all others most hastily arraigned and most un- mercifully condemned . In a private citizen , our judgment seldom ...
... successor . Hypocrisy I shall never justify or palliate ; but I will dare to observe that the odious vice of avarice is of all others most hastily arraigned and most un- mercifully condemned . In a private citizen , our judgment seldom ...
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... successor Michael the Sixth . The Michael VI . surname of Stratioticus declares his military profes- A. D. 1056 , sion ; but the crazy and decrepit veteran could only Aug. 22 . see with the eyes , and execute with the hands , of his ...
... successor Michael the Sixth . The Michael VI . surname of Stratioticus declares his military profes- A. D. 1056 , sion ; but the crazy and decrepit veteran could only Aug. 22 . see with the eyes , and execute with the hands , of his ...
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