The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1Phillips, Sampson, 1852 - Byzantine Empire |
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... less wary readers against the same perils ; but we must not confound this secret and unconscious de- parture from truth , with the deliberate violation of that veracity which is the only title of an historian to our confidence . Gibbon ...
... less wary readers against the same perils ; but we must not confound this secret and unconscious de- parture from truth , with the deliberate violation of that veracity which is the only title of an historian to our confidence . Gibbon ...
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... less picturesque , but still with lively and attractive , descriptiveness ? He might have thrown aside , with the same scorn , the mass of ecclesiastical fiction which envelops the early history of the church , stripped off the ...
... less picturesque , but still with lively and attractive , descriptiveness ? He might have thrown aside , with the same scorn , the mass of ecclesiastical fiction which envelops the early history of the church , stripped off the ...
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... less to hope than to fear from the chance of arms ; and that , in the prosecution of remote wars , the undertaking became every day more difficult , the event more doubtful , and the possession more precarious , and less beneficial ...
... less to hope than to fear from the chance of arms ; and that , in the prosecution of remote wars , the undertaking became every day more difficult , the event more doubtful , and the possession more precarious , and less beneficial ...
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... less fatal to himself than to the vanquished barbarians.5 The only accession which the Roman empire received , during the first century of the Christian Era , was the province of Britain . In this single instance , the successors of ...
... less fatal to himself than to the vanquished barbarians.5 The only accession which the Roman empire received , during the first century of the Christian Era , was the province of Britain . In this single instance , the successors of ...
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... less reluctance , if the prospect and example of freedom were on every side removed from before their eyes . But the superior merit of Agricola soon occasioned his removal from the government of Britain ; and forever dis- appointed this ...
... less reluctance , if the prospect and example of freedom were on every side removed from before their eyes . But the superior merit of Agricola soon occasioned his removal from the government of Britain ; and forever dis- appointed this ...
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