Universal History, ancient and modern; from the earliest records of time, to the general peace of 1801, Band 7 |
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... 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 his meditations upon the ...
... 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 his meditations upon the ...
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... taken possession of the palace , in order to quiet the apprehensions of Dalmatius and Annibalianus , entered into a solemn con- tract with them , which immediately after he sought a specious pretext for breaking . From the hands of the ...
... taken possession of the palace , in order to quiet the apprehensions of Dalmatius and Annibalianus , entered into a solemn con- tract with them , which immediately after he sought a specious pretext for breaking . From the hands of the ...
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... taken off by Magnentius , an ambitious general of barbarian extraction , who had been corrupted by the assistance of Marcellinus . At a splendid entertainment , given by the latter at Autun , to the nobles of Gaul , Magnentius entered ...
... taken off by Magnentius , an ambitious general of barbarian extraction , who had been corrupted by the assistance of Marcellinus . At a splendid entertainment , given by the latter at Autun , to the nobles of Gaul , Magnentius entered ...
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... taken place in the family of Constantine , by the condemnation of Gallus , his only surviving cousin , except Julian . Gallus had been invested with the purple in the twenty - fifth year of his age , and afterwards married to the ...
... taken place in the family of Constantine , by the condemnation of Gallus , his only surviving cousin , except Julian . Gallus had been invested with the purple in the twenty - fifth year of his age , and afterwards married to the ...
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... taken up , and carried bound to the emperor , who caused him to be decapitated . Had Valens only exerted himself to defend the power with which he was legitimately in- vested against all opponents , he might have ap- peared respectable ...
... taken up , and carried bound to the emperor , who caused him to be decapitated . Had Valens only exerted himself to defend the power with which he was legitimately in- vested against all opponents , he might have ap- peared respectable ...
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