The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Količina 1W. Blackwood, 1867 - 650 strani |
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... ROME - SPECIALTIES SEPARATING FROM THE REST OF THE CATHOLIC WORLD - ITS MONASTICISM - POSITION AND FUNCTIONS OF WOMEN - TENDENCY OF LATER ECCLESI- ASTICAL LITERATURE TO SUPPRESS THESE SPECIALTIES - IM- PORTANCE OF THE EARLIER SOURCES ...
... ROME - SPECIALTIES SEPARATING FROM THE REST OF THE CATHOLIC WORLD - ITS MONASTICISM - POSITION AND FUNCTIONS OF WOMEN - TENDENCY OF LATER ECCLESI- ASTICAL LITERATURE TO SUPPRESS THESE SPECIALTIES - IM- PORTANCE OF THE EARLIER SOURCES ...
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... Rome that there was work in a distant land for the imperial troops . Of their subsequent doings we have occasional glimpses in contemporary literature . These are feeble and frag- mentary . By scrupulously collecting them , however ...
... Rome that there was work in a distant land for the imperial troops . Of their subsequent doings we have occasional glimpses in contemporary literature . These are feeble and frag- mentary . By scrupulously collecting them , however ...
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... Rome and the morals of the court of Tiberius . We do not know where he crossed the border , though an examination of the vestiges of the Roman progress in Scotland renders it likely that he marched along the east coast to the ...
... Rome and the morals of the court of Tiberius . We do not know where he crossed the border , though an examination of the vestiges of the Roman progress in Scotland renders it likely that he marched along the east coast to the ...
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... Rome to face the jealous Domitian . Such is the substance of the narrative given by Tacitus . It is the only distinct account of the doings of the Romans in Scotland , though they long struggled for its annexation , and were perhaps for ...
... Rome to face the jealous Domitian . Such is the substance of the narrative given by Tacitus . It is the only distinct account of the doings of the Romans in Scotland , though they long struggled for its annexation , and were perhaps for ...
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... Rome . His contemporary Martial alludes to the Caledonian Bear as if it were known in the gladiatorial shows , and vividly describes the robber Auriolus , nailed to the cross , torn by the brute , like Prometheus by his vultures ...
... Rome . His contemporary Martial alludes to the Caledonian Bear as if it were known in the gladiatorial shows , and vividly describes the robber Auriolus , nailed to the cross , torn by the brute , like Prometheus by his vultures ...
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Stran 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.