The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1Methuen & Company, 1909 - Byzantine Empire |
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... Throne of Armenia State of the Country . ... Revolt of the People and Nobles Story of Mamgo ... The Persians recover Armenia ... 296 War between the Persians and the Romans Defeat of Galerius His Reception by Diocletian 297 Second ...
... Throne of Armenia State of the Country . ... Revolt of the People and Nobles Story of Mamgo ... The Persians recover Armenia ... 296 War between the Persians and the Romans Defeat of Galerius His Reception by Diocletian 297 Second ...
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... throne of Tamerlane : our most correct writers have retrenched the Al , the superfluous article , from the Koran ; and we escape an ambiguous termination by adopting Moslem instead of Musulman , in the plural number . In these , and in ...
... throne of Tamerlane : our most correct writers have retrenched the Al , the superfluous article , from the Koran ; and we escape an ambiguous termination by adopting Moslem instead of Musulman , in the plural number . In these , and in ...
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... throne was dis- graced by the weakest or the most vicious of mankind . At the very time when Domitian , confined to his palace , felt the terrors which he inspired , his legions , under the command of the virtuous Agricola , defeated ...
... throne was dis- graced by the weakest or the most vicious of mankind . At the very time when Domitian , confined to his palace , felt the terrors which he inspired , his legions , under the command of the virtuous Agricola , defeated ...
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... throne of the Ptolemies ; and the iron sceptre of the Mamalukes is now in the hands of a Turkish pasha . The Nile flows down the country , about five hundred miles from the tropic of Cancer to the Mediterranean , and marks , on either ...
... throne of the Ptolemies ; and the iron sceptre of the Mamalukes is now in the hands of a Turkish pasha . The Nile flows down the country , about five hundred miles from the tropic of Cancer to the Mediterranean , and marks , on either ...
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... throne , refused to accept any part of it , and commanded him to use , without scruple , the present of fortune . The cautious Athenian still insisted that the treasure was too considerable for a subject , and that he knew not how to ...
... throne , refused to accept any part of it , and commanded him to use , without scruple , the present of fortune . The cautious Athenian still insisted that the treasure was too considerable for a subject , and that he knew not how to ...
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