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... Favour of Chris- tianity ... 307 · CHAPTER IX . ROME thrice Sacked by the Goths - Hono- rius and his Chickens - Chrysostom- Augustine Nestorius Mariolatry- The Authentic Portrait - Patrick - The Gothic Warrior's Grave - Genseric the ...
... Favour of Chris- tianity ... 307 · CHAPTER IX . ROME thrice Sacked by the Goths - Hono- rius and his Chickens - Chrysostom- Augustine Nestorius Mariolatry- The Authentic Portrait - Patrick - The Gothic Warrior's Grave - Genseric the ...
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... favour of the Senate by gifts of barbaric pearls and gold , or of savage animals dragged from the interior of India or Africa . Even those long , green , swelling ridges in which the Campagna rises and falls , as in the heath country of ...
... favour of the Senate by gifts of barbaric pearls and gold , or of savage animals dragged from the interior of India or Africa . Even those long , green , swelling ridges in which the Campagna rises and falls , as in the heath country of ...
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... favoured worshippers ; and wept in times of public calamity , as Virgil tells us they did at the death of Julius Cæsar . Daemons , a sort of intermediate beings between gods and men , chiefly deified heroes , were supposed to be means ...
... favoured worshippers ; and wept in times of public calamity , as Virgil tells us they did at the death of Julius Cæsar . Daemons , a sort of intermediate beings between gods and men , chiefly deified heroes , were supposed to be means ...
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... favour at court , by the scorn he foully heaped upon the tribunes , and by contempt for the populace , who , after all , were the true patriots who achieved their country's freedom , and to whom it owed its greatness . Hence- forth , at ...
... favour at court , by the scorn he foully heaped upon the tribunes , and by contempt for the populace , who , after all , were the true patriots who achieved their country's freedom , and to whom it owed its greatness . Hence- forth , at ...
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... favour , ' was often the first intimation of the death of a suspected minister or magistrate . Thus fell his adopted sons Nero and Drusus , with their mother Agrippina , the two latter by starvation . Tiberius details minutely , in a ...
... favour , ' was often the first intimation of the death of a suspected minister or magistrate . Thus fell his adopted sons Nero and Drusus , with their mother Agrippina , the two latter by starvation . Tiberius details minutely , in a ...
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