The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Том 1W. Blackwood, 1867 - 650 стор. |
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... tion , given currency among the natives to the Roman dress and literature , and stimulated them to build temples and improved dwellings - and all within two years , a rather brief period for so great an achievement . The assimilation ...
... tion , given currency among the natives to the Roman dress and literature , and stimulated them to build temples and improved dwellings - and all within two years , a rather brief period for so great an achievement . The assimilation ...
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... tion sufficient to be called a Mons , according to the Roman notions of topography . If we ask what sound of a native name might have run in the recollection of Tacitus when he expressed the battle - field as " ad Mon- tem Grampium ...
... tion sufficient to be called a Mons , according to the Roman notions of topography . If we ask what sound of a native name might have run in the recollection of Tacitus when he expressed the battle - field as " ad Mon- tem Grampium ...
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... tion of some barren and scarcely - inhabited rocks . On this occasion it seems the fleet got sight of Thule , usually hidden by winter and night . This has been a fugitive name , the geographers never having fixed on a permanent abode ...
... tion of some barren and scarcely - inhabited rocks . On this occasion it seems the fleet got sight of Thule , usually hidden by winter and night . This has been a fugitive name , the geographers never having fixed on a permanent abode ...
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... tion . True , it was not intended as a final boundary- as a line of frontier fortresses ; for the empire did not contemplate final boundaries . But if we take it as , in military phrase , a base of operations - a support to armies ...
... tion . True , it was not intended as a final boundary- as a line of frontier fortresses ; for the empire did not contemplate final boundaries . But if we take it as , in military phrase , a base of operations - a support to armies ...
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... tion . We have seen that Agricola 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 ...
... tion . We have seen that Agricola 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 ...
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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.