The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Том 1W. Blackwood, 1867 - 650 стор. |
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... British territories , as with a view to further conquests . Ireland was a desirable acquisition , as it lay between Britain and Spain , and would finally round off the Roman empire in the north - west . Even in the possession of barba ...
... British territories , as with a view to further conquests . Ireland was a desirable acquisition , as it lay between Britain and Spain , and would finally round off the Roman empire in the north - west . Even in the possession of barba ...
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... British geography . By degrees he excited the antiquary's interest by sending him an extract and a facsimile of the writing , pronounced to be un- doubted fourteenth - century work . It is not safe to pass such jokes on enthusiasts ...
... British geography . By degrees he excited the antiquary's interest by sending him an extract and a facsimile of the writing , pronounced to be un- doubted fourteenth - century work . It is not safe to pass such jokes on enthusiasts ...
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... British public , was the first dupe , but he found himself in respectable company . Gibbon , Pin- kerton , Chalmers - all the archæology of the age - believed ; and General Roy devoted the greater part of his work on the military ...
... British public , was the first dupe , but he found himself in respectable company . Gibbon , Pin- kerton , Chalmers - all the archæology of the age - believed ; and General Roy devoted the greater part of his work on the military ...
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... British part of the empire from the inhabit- ants of this country , and in its costliness and strength was a measure of what Rome had to fear in that direc- tion . True , it was not intended as a final boundary- as a line of frontier ...
... British part of the empire from the inhabit- ants of this country , and in its costliness and strength was a measure of what Rome had to fear in that direc- tion . True , it was not intended as a final boundary- as a line of frontier ...
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... establishment . The mouldings 1 Notitia Imperii ( see the British portion in Monumenta Historica Britannica , xxiv . ) Item per Lineam valli , and decorations on the fragments of buildings tell us that THE GREAT WALL , A.D. 120-220 . 23.
... establishment . The mouldings 1 Notitia Imperii ( see the British portion in Monumenta Historica Britannica , xxiv . ) Item per Lineam valli , and decorations on the fragments of buildings tell us that THE GREAT WALL , A.D. 120-220 . 23.
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Сторінка 11 - Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, et. mare scrutantur : si locuples hostis est, avari ; si pauper, ambitiosi : quos non Oriens, non Occidens, satiaverit. Soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari affectu concupiscunt. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium ; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.