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... Roman provinces . Rhætia Transdanubiana , the country on the left bank of the Danube , was well known to the Romans , but never conquered by them . After the fall of the Roman pow- er , the Alemanni and Suevi occupied these ancient ...
... Roman provinces . Rhætia Transdanubiana , the country on the left bank of the Danube , was well known to the Romans , but never conquered by them . After the fall of the Roman pow- er , the Alemanni and Suevi occupied these ancient ...
Strana 13
... Roman teachers of grammar , Livius An- dronicus and Ennius ( B. C. 236-166 ) , who were in part of Grecian descent , and wrote both in prose and poetry , made translations from some Greek authors . A general taste for philological ...
... Roman teachers of grammar , Livius An- dronicus and Ennius ( B. C. 236-166 ) , who were in part of Grecian descent , and wrote both in prose and poetry , made translations from some Greek authors . A general taste for philological ...
Strana 14
... Roman em- perors also prohibited those who were not regularly qualified from teaching declama- tion . Besides other secret usages in the Greek ceremony of admission , the candi- dates were led to a public bath . After the bath , the ...
... Roman em- perors also prohibited those who were not regularly qualified from teaching declama- tion . Besides other secret usages in the Greek ceremony of admission , the candi- dates were led to a public bath . After the bath , the ...
Strana 16
... Roman colo- nics , and of ecclesiastical councils , and are associated with many of the most impor- tant events recorded in history - such a river it is not surprising that the Germans regard with a kind of reverence , and fre- quently ...
... Roman colo- nics , and of ecclesiastical councils , and are associated with many of the most impor- tant events recorded in history - such a river it is not surprising that the Germans regard with a kind of reverence , and fre- quently ...
Strana 19
... Roman wars , and was first made a Roman province in the reign of Vespasian . In 1309 , after the loss of Pal- estine , the knights of St. John occupied the island , and were thence called the knights of Rhodes . In 1480 , they repelled ...
... Roman wars , and was first made a Roman province in the reign of Vespasian . In 1309 , after the loss of Pal- estine , the knights of St. John occupied the island , and were thence called the knights of Rhodes . In 1480 , they repelled ...
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Strana 433 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Strana 189 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Strana 40 - ... a tumultuous disturbance of the peace by three persons or more assembling together of their own authority, with an intent mutually to assist one another against any who shall oppose them in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner to the terror of the people, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful.
Strana 48 - THE ANCIENTS HAD OF INDIA ; and the Progress of Trade with that Country prior to the Discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope.
Strana 457 - Socage, in its most general and extensive signification, seems to denote a tenure by any certain and determinate service. And in this sense it is by our ancient writers constantly put in opposition to chivalry, or knight-service, where the render was precarious and uncertain. Thus Bracton (a) ; if a man holds by rent in money, without any escuage or serjeanty, " id tenementum did potest socagium...
Strana 416 - Simony is the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward. It is so called from the resemblance it is said to bear to the sin of Simon Magus, though the purchasing of holy orders seems to approach nearer to his offence.
Strana 350 - We do also resolve to protect and preserve the government of the Church of Scotland, as it is settled by law...
Strana 433 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Strana 391 - Blunt — Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs, discoverable in Modern Italy and Sicily...
Strana 435 - On looking into the places where they had been crammed, there were found some children next the sides of the ship, in the places...