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... perished in these conflicts . The Romans are stated to have destroyed , from two to three hundred thousand , in two battles . It is impossible to read of human slaughter without lamenting it , or without feeling some abhorrence of those ...
... perished in these conflicts . The Romans are stated to have destroyed , from two to three hundred thousand , in two battles . It is impossible to read of human slaughter without lamenting it , or without feeling some abhorrence of those ...
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... 31. The distance is near forty miles . Whit . Manch . ii . p . 172. 8o . 13 Strabo , lib . iii . p . 265 . Huet thinks this was not the Crassus who perished CHAP . III . BOOK I. Welsh tra- ditions . seems to have landed ANGLO - SAXONS . 47.
... 31. The distance is near forty miles . Whit . Manch . ii . p . 172. 8o . 13 Strabo , lib . iii . p . 265 . Huet thinks this was not the Crassus who perished CHAP . III . BOOK I. Welsh tra- ditions . seems to have landed ANGLO - SAXONS . 47.
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... perished ; but passed at death into other bodies ; and as this opinion re- moved the fear of death , they thought that it excited strongly to what they called virtue , of which valour was the most conspicuous quality . They discussed ...
... perished ; but passed at death into other bodies ; and as this opinion re- moved the fear of death , they thought that it excited strongly to what they called virtue , of which valour was the most conspicuous quality . They discussed ...
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... perished in his last books . That elephants were used by the Romans in England , appears from the bones of an elephant having been found , on digging for gravel , in a field near Battle Bridge . 1 Lel . Collect . p . Ixiv . BOOK I. own ...
... perished in his last books . That elephants were used by the Romans in England , appears from the bones of an elephant having been found , on digging for gravel , in a field near Battle Bridge . 1 Lel . Collect . p . Ixiv . BOOK I. own ...
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... perished ; if one remarkable incident , not originating from themselves , but from a Roman emperor , who intended no such result , had not ex- cited their peculiar attention to maritime expeditions on a larger scale , with grander ...
... perished ; if one remarkable incident , not originating from themselves , but from a Roman emperor , who intended no such result , had not ex- cited their peculiar attention to maritime expeditions on a larger scale , with grander ...
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