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... Rome in the time of Nero , and of the suspicions which were entertained that the emperor himself was concerned in causing it , the historian proceeds in his narrative and observations thus : " But neither these exertions , nor his ...
... Rome in the time of Nero , and of the suspicions which were entertained that the emperor himself was concerned in causing it , the historian proceeds in his narrative and observations thus : " But neither these exertions , nor his ...
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... Rome also , whither every thing bad upon the earth finds its way , and is practised . Some who confessed their sect , were first seized , and afterwards , by their information , a vast multitude were appre- hended , who were convicted ...
... Rome also , whither every thing bad upon the earth finds its way , and is practised . Some who confessed their sect , were first seized , and afterwards , by their information , a vast multitude were appre- hended , who were convicted ...
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... Rome . From which fact , the two following inferences may be fairly drawn : first , that if , in the space of thirty- four years from its commencement , the re- ligion had spread throughout Judea , had extended itself to Rome , and ...
... Rome . From which fact , the two following inferences may be fairly drawn : first , that if , in the space of thirty- four years from its commencement , the re- ligion had spread throughout Judea , had extended itself to Rome , and ...
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... Rome who alone suffered , it is probable that Suetonius re- fers to some more general persecution than the short and occasional one which Tacitus describes . Juvenal , a writer of the same age with the two former , and intending , it ...
... Rome who alone suffered , it is probable that Suetonius re- fers to some more general persecution than the short and occasional one which Tacitus describes . Juvenal , a writer of the same age with the two former , and intending , it ...
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... Rome ; and that it had there great multitudes of converts : and all this within thirty years after its commence- ment . Now these facts afford a strong in- ference in behalf of the proposition which we maintain . What could the ...
... Rome ; and that it had there great multitudes of converts : and all this within thirty years after its commence- ment . Now these facts afford a strong in- ference in behalf of the proposition which we maintain . What could the ...
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