The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1Methuen & Company, 1909 - Byzantine Empire |
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... hundred years ago , is still successful with the general circle of educated people , and has not gone the way of Hume and Robertson , whom we laud as " classics " and leave on the cold shelves , is due to the singularly happy union of ...
... hundred years ago , is still successful with the general circle of educated people , and has not gone the way of Hume and Robertson , whom we laud as " classics " and leave on the cold shelves , is due to the singularly happy union of ...
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... hundred years which is allowed to the remaining nine hundred and eighty . Nor does the inequality end here . More than a quarter of the second half of the work deals with the first two of these ten centuries . The mere state- ment of ...
... hundred years which is allowed to the remaining nine hundred and eighty . Nor does the inequality end here . More than a quarter of the second half of the work deals with the first two of these ten centuries . The mere state- ment of ...
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... hundred a strict limit . Gibbon tells us nothing of the Slavonic missionaries , Cyril and Methodius , round whose names an extensive literature has been formed . It is only in comparatively recent years that the geography of 9 Byzantina ...
... hundred a strict limit . Gibbon tells us nothing of the Slavonic missionaries , Cyril and Methodius , round whose names an extensive literature has been formed . It is only in comparatively recent years that the geography of 9 Byzantina ...
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... hundred and fifty - three . The most patient reader , who computes that three ponderous volumes have been already employed on the events of four centuries , may , perhaps , be alarmed at the long prospect of nine hundred years . But it ...
... hundred and fifty - three . The most patient reader , who computes that three ponderous volumes have been already employed on the events of four centuries , may , perhaps , be alarmed at the long prospect of nine hundred years . But it ...
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... hundred pounds sterling ) , or a proportionable allowance of land . The pay and advantages of the guards were , in general , about double those of the legions . were authorized to chastise with blows , the generals had CHAP . I ] OF THE ...
... hundred pounds sterling ) , or a proportionable allowance of land . The pay and advantages of the guards were , in general , about double those of the legions . were authorized to chastise with blows , the generals had CHAP . I ] OF THE ...
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