Universal History, ancient and modern; from the earliest records of time, to the general peace of 1801, Band 7 |
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... Rome , a cruel and bigoted polytheist ; Licinius , who was adopted by Galerius , and commanded in the east ; and Maximin , who had formerly been declared Cæsar with Severus , and who also governed a few of the provinces in the same ...
... Rome , a cruel and bigoted polytheist ; Licinius , who was adopted by Galerius , and commanded in the east ; and Maximin , who had formerly been declared Cæsar with Severus , and who also governed a few of the provinces in the same ...
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... Rome . Fired by ambition , or impelled by humanity , Constantine resolved to march into Italy against that general , and to drive him from the capital . It was upon this occasion that he formed a resolution which prodaced produced a ...
... Rome . Fired by ambition , or impelled by humanity , Constantine resolved to march into Italy against that general , and to drive him from the capital . It was upon this occasion that he formed a resolution which prodaced produced a ...
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... Rome , Constantine was taken up with va- rious considerations upon the fate of sublunary things , and the dangers of his approaching ex- pedition ; and sensible of his own incapacity to succeed without divine assistance , he employed ...
... Rome , Constantine was taken up with va- rious considerations upon the fate of sublunary things , and the dangers of his approaching ex- pedition ; and sensible of his own incapacity to succeed without divine assistance , he employed ...
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... Rome . Maxentius , who had long aban- doned himself to ease and debauchery , now be- gan to make preparation for defence : he first put in practice all the superstitious rites which paganism prescribed ; and next consulted the si ...
... Rome . Maxentius , who had long aban- doned himself to ease and debauchery , now be- gan to make preparation for defence : he first put in practice all the superstitious rites which paganism prescribed ; and next consulted the si ...
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... Rome to Byzantium , or Constantinople , as it was afterwards called . Whatever might have been the reasons which induced him to this un- dertaking ; whether it was because he resented some affronts he had received at Rome , or that he ...
... Rome to Byzantium , or Constantinople , as it was afterwards called . Whatever might have been the reasons which induced him to this un- dertaking ; whether it was because he resented some affronts he had received at Rome , or that he ...
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