The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Том 1W. Blackwood, 1867 - 650 стор. |
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... carry through the imposition . He chose the latter alternative . What puzzles one at first sight , is how any man could have a motive for a fabrication that must have cost so much labour ; but in what has been said a motive is found ...
... carry through the imposition . He chose the latter alternative . What puzzles one at first sight , is how any man could have a motive for a fabrication that must have cost so much labour ; but in what has been said a motive is found ...
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... carried through trap - dikes or other masses of irruptive rock . Here the sides of the ditches are pre- cipitous , and the masses of rock - some of them many tons in weight - lie thrown on the edge like portions of those great ...
... carried through trap - dikes or other masses of irruptive rock . Here the sides of the ditches are pre- cipitous , and the masses of rock - some of them many tons in weight - lie thrown on the edge like portions of those great ...
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... carried his victories to the Tay or farther , and deemed that , leaving a margin of chastised and frightened barbarians outside , he could safely draw the boundary of the settled empire from the Forth to the Clyde . But within forty ...
... carried his victories to the Tay or farther , and deemed that , leaving a margin of chastised and frightened barbarians outside , he could safely draw the boundary of the settled empire from the Forth to the Clyde . But within forty ...
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... carried on this occa- sion , and it has , indeed , been thought that the terms used might rather apply to the garrison of a Roman station than to either of them.2 The brief narrative 1 Compare the survey in Horsley's Britannia with the ...
... carried on this occa- sion , and it has , indeed , been thought that the terms used might rather apply to the garrison of a Roman station than to either of them.2 The brief narrative 1 Compare the survey in Horsley's Britannia with the ...
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... carried Rome over the world , was so infirm that he was borne on a litter ; and it is recorded that , although he never had an opportunity of fighting a battle , he lost fifty thousand men in the expedition . He secured to himself the ...
... carried Rome over the world , was so infirm that he was borne on a litter ; and it is recorded that , although he never had an opportunity of fighting a battle , he lost fifty thousand men in the expedition . He secured to himself the ...
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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.