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European power . The existing generation can yet reach back a hand to the last of her long line of rulers . The ashes of her independence are still warm ; may we add , that even the flame . is not yet wholly extinct ! Yet , practically ...
European power . The existing generation can yet reach back a hand to the last of her long line of rulers . The ashes of her independence are still warm ; may we add , that even the flame . is not yet wholly extinct ! Yet , practically ...
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European power . The existing generation can yet reach back a hand to the last of her long line of rulers . The ashes of her independence are still warm ; may we add , that even the flame is not yet wholly extinct ! Yet , practically ...
European power . The existing generation can yet reach back a hand to the last of her long line of rulers . The ashes of her independence are still warm ; may we add , that even the flame is not yet wholly extinct ! Yet , practically ...
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... hand , found his inde- pendence circumscribed by a body of six privy councillors chosen from the six wards , without whose consent none of his acts hal any legal authority . Their term of office expired with the Doge's life . Interposed ...
... hand , found his inde- pendence circumscribed by a body of six privy councillors chosen from the six wards , without whose consent none of his acts hal any legal authority . Their term of office expired with the Doge's life . Interposed ...
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... hands of Turkey by the terms of the treaty of Carlowitz . Venice had now flourished in meridian splendour for at least five hundred years , and in a position of very considerable eminence for nearly a thousand . Her decline was now ...
... hands of Turkey by the terms of the treaty of Carlowitz . Venice had now flourished in meridian splendour for at least five hundred years , and in a position of very considerable eminence for nearly a thousand . Her decline was now ...
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... hand ; burglars , adulterers , and ravishers were punished by " exoculation " as well , unless in the two latter cases a suitable indemnity was forthcoming . Of capital punishments there were four kinds— Starvation , decapitation ...
... hand ; burglars , adulterers , and ravishers were punished by " exoculation " as well , unless in the two latter cases a suitable indemnity was forthcoming . Of capital punishments there were four kinds— Starvation , decapitation ...
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