The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1Methuen & Company, 1909 - Byzantine Empire |
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... Citizens Abolition of the Tribute Tributes of the Provinces of Asia ... of Egypt , Gaul , Africa and Spain PAGE 160 160 161 ... 161 ... 162 162 164 164 164 166 166 166 167 168 169 169 170 171 172 172 173 173 173-4 174 174 175 175 176 ...
... Citizens Abolition of the Tribute Tributes of the Provinces of Asia ... of Egypt , Gaul , Africa and Spain PAGE 160 160 161 ... 161 ... 162 162 164 164 164 166 166 166 167 168 169 169 170 171 172 172 173 173 173-4 174 174 175 175 176 ...
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... citizens who had a country to love , a property to defend , and some share in enacting those laws which it was their interest , as well as duty , to maintain . But in proportion as the public freedom was lost in extent of conquest , war ...
... citizens who had a country to love , a property to defend , and some share in enacting those laws which it was their interest , as well as duty , to maintain . But in proportion as the public freedom was lost in extent of conquest , war ...
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... citizens , had checked the fortune , and hastened the ruin , of Athens and Sparta . The aspiring genius of Rome sacrificed vanity to ambition , and deemed it more prudent , as well as honourable , to adopt virtue and merit for her own ...
... citizens , had checked the fortune , and hastened the ruin , of Athens and Sparta . The aspiring genius of Rome sacrificed vanity to ambition , and deemed it more prudent , as well as honourable , to adopt virtue and merit for her own ...
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... citizens , who , in the first census of Servius Tullius , amounted to no more than eighty - three thousand , 25 were multiplied , be- fore the commencement of the social war , to the number of four hundred and sixty - three thousand men ...
... citizens , who , in the first census of Servius Tullius , amounted to no more than eighty - three thousand , 25 were multiplied , be- fore the commencement of the social war , to the number of four hundred and sixty - three thousand men ...
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... citizens of Rome . Their partial distinctions were obliterated , and they insensibly coalesced into one great nation , united by language , manners , and civil institutions , and equal to the weight of a powerful empire . The republic ...
... citizens of Rome . Their partial distinctions were obliterated , and they insensibly coalesced into one great nation , united by language , manners , and civil institutions , and equal to the weight of a powerful empire . The republic ...
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