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... hands of the proper officers he was invested with the Imperial garments , the red buskins , white tunic , and purple robe . A fortunate soldier , whom he instantly promoted to the rank of tribune , encircled his neck with a military ...
... hands of the proper officers he was invested with the Imperial garments , the red buskins , white tunic , and purple robe . A fortunate soldier , whom he instantly promoted to the rank of tribune , encircled his neck with a military ...
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... hands on their swords . The tumult was appeased by the venerable interposition of Turisund . He saved his own honour , and the life of his guest ; and , after the solemn rites of investiture , dismissed the stranger in the bloody arms ...
... hands on their swords . The tumult was appeased by the venerable interposition of Turisund . He saved his own honour , and the life of his guest ; and , after the solemn rites of investiture , dismissed the stranger in the bloody arms ...
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... hand of 16 The classical reader will recollect the wife and murder of Candaules , so agreeably told in the first book of Herodotus . The choice of Gyges , αἱρέεται αὐτὸς περιεῖναι , may serve as the excuse of Peredeus ; and this soft ...
... hand of 16 The classical reader will recollect the wife and murder of Candaules , so agreeably told in the first book of Herodotus . The choice of Gyges , αἱρέεται αὐτὸς περιεῖναι , may serve as the excuse of Peredeus ; and this soft ...
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... hand , but from the hand of 17 The praise bestowed on princes before their elevation is the purest and most weighty . Corippus has celebrated Tiberius at the time of the accession of Justin ( 1. i . 212-222 ) . Yet even a captain of the ...
... hand , but from the hand of 17 The praise bestowed on princes before their elevation is the purest and most weighty . Corippus has celebrated Tiberius at the time of the accession of Justin ( 1. i . 212-222 ) . Yet even a captain of the ...
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... hands of a noble Lombard.32 buffaloes , whose native climate appears to be Africa and India , are unknown to Europe except in Italy , where they are numerous and useful , The ancients were ignorant of these animals , unless Aristotle ...
... hands of a noble Lombard.32 buffaloes , whose native climate appears to be Africa and India , are unknown to Europe except in Italy , where they are numerous and useful , The ancients were ignorant of these animals , unless Aristotle ...
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Сторінка 186 - Encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their religion, the Ethiopians slept near a thousand years, forgetful of the world, by whom they were forgotten.
Сторінка 259 - Paul : and, in every deed of mischief, he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Сторінка 381 - Abyssinians ,66 whose victory would have introduced into the Caaba the religion of the Christians. In his early infancy, he was deprived of his father, his mother, and his grandfather; his uncles were strong and numerous; and, in the division of the inheritance, the orphan's share was reduced to five camels and an Ethiopian maidservant.
Сторінка 308 - The splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld, for the first time, a Christian bishop invested with the prerogatives of a temporal prince : the choice of magistrates, the exercise of justice, the imposition of taxes, and the wealth of the palace of Ravenna.
Сторінка 362 - Yet these exceptions are temporary or local; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies; the arms of Sesostris* and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia...
Сторінка 520 - of the Greeks agree with the hook of God, they are useless and " need not be preserved : if they disagree, they are pernicious and
Сторінка 123 - On a fatal day, in the holy season of Lent, Hypatia was torn from her chariot, stripped naked, dragged to the church, and inhumanly butchered by the hands of Peter the reader and a troop of savage and merciless fanatics: her flesh was scraped from her bones with sharp oyster-shells, and her quivering limbs were delivered to the flames.
Сторінка 445 - Ommiyah;1" but in the fourth age of the Hegira a tomb, a temple, a city, arose near the ruins of Cufa. "* Many thousands of the Shiites repose in holy ground at the feet of the vicar of God; and the desert is vivified by the numerous and annual visits of the Persians, who esteem their devotion not less meritorious than the pilgrimage of Mecca.
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