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This was an equal division among the Roman people of all the lands which they acquired by conquest , limiting the acres which each person should enjoy , first proposed by Sp . Cassius , to gain the favour of the citizens , 486 s.c. It ...
This was an equal division among the Roman people of all the lands which they acquired by conquest , limiting the acres which each person should enjoy , first proposed by Sp . Cassius , to gain the favour of the citizens , 486 s.c. It ...
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The nations of the East were the first who paid divine honours to their great men , and the Romans followed their example , and not only deified the most prudent and humane of their emperors , but also the most cruel and profligate .
The nations of the East were the first who paid divine honours to their great men , and the Romans followed their example , and not only deified the most prudent and humane of their emperors , but also the most cruel and profligate .
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... his first for assistance to Rome victory , at Methon , over the Athe- A Roman fleet arrives in the ports of nians . ... and against the Romans from Mithridates , Thebans defeated by Philip and his king of Pontus son , Alexander .
... his first for assistance to Rome victory , at Methon , over the Athe- A Roman fleet arrives in the ports of nians . ... and against the Romans from Mithridates , Thebans defeated by Philip and his king of Pontus son , Alexander .
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Se . veral companies and institutions connected with Australia have lately been formed in London , AUSTRIA , anciently the Belgic Gaul of the Romans . It was taken from Hungary and annexed to Germany , when it received its present name ...
Se . veral companies and institutions connected with Australia have lately been formed in London , AUSTRIA , anciently the Belgic Gaul of the Romans . It was taken from Hungary and annexed to Germany , when it received its present name ...
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by the sentence of the Inquisitions of Roman Catholic countries on the burning pile . One of the last executions of this kind was at Goa , where , for the glory of the Christian religion ( ! ) and in vindication of the Catholic faith ...
by the sentence of the Inquisitions of Roman Catholic countries on the burning pile . One of the last executions of this kind was at Goa , where , for the glory of the Christian religion ( ! ) and in vindication of the Catholic faith ...
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Page 71 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
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Page 418 - Barons' eldest Sons. Knights of the Garter. Privy Councillors. Chancellor of the Exchequer. "Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. Master of the Rolls.
Page 158 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Page 162 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
Page 460 - May, 1700, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by John, duke of Buckingham.
Page 437 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 156 - Crispinus and Crispianus were brethren, born at Rome ; from whence they travelled to Soissons in France, about the year 303, to propagate the Christian religion ; but because they would not be chargeable to others for their maintenance, they exercised the trade of shoemakers; but the governor of the town discovering them to be Christians, ordered them to be beheaded about the year 303 From which time, the shoemakers made choice of them for their tutelar saints.
Page 435 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 17 - Formerly the oath of allegiance ran thus : ' I do promise to be true and faithful to the King and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear, of life, and limb, and terrene honour ; and not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him, without defending him therefrom:' and was altered at the Revolution to the present form.
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| Title | Dictionary of dates, and universal reference |
| Author | Joseph Timothy Haydn |
| Edition | 3 |
| Published | 1845 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 9 Oct 2006 |
| Length | 80 pages |
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