History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... Barbarian invasion . - History of the Roman municipal system . Three epochs in that history LECTURE XXIII . • Of the various social conditions in the Roman Empire , before the final invasion of the Barbarians . - The privileged classes ...
... Barbarian invasion . - History of the Roman municipal system . Three epochs in that history LECTURE XXIII . • Of the various social conditions in the Roman Empire , before the final invasion of the Barbarians . - The privileged classes ...
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... barbarians . From the accession of Augustus to the death of Theo- dosius the Great , the Roman Empire , in spite of its great- ness , presents a general character of impotence and sterility . Its institutions , its government , its ...
... barbarians . From the accession of Augustus to the death of Theo- dosius the Great , the Roman Empire , in spite of its great- ness , presents a general character of impotence and sterility . Its institutions , its government , its ...
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... barbarians , " they wrote , " drive us to the sea , and the sea drives us back to the barbarians ; so that , between the two , we must be either slaughtered or drowned . " With patriotic susceptibility , some English writers - among ...
... barbarians , " they wrote , " drive us to the sea , and the sea drives us back to the barbarians ; so that , between the two , we must be either slaughtered or drowned . " With patriotic susceptibility , some English writers - among ...
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... received three or four thousand * In B.C. 113-101 . Marius finally defeated the Teutones at Aix , in the year 102 ; and the Cimbri , near Vercelli , in the year 101 . FOUNDATION OF BARBARIAN KINGDOMS . 27 Franks into Auvergne .
... received three or four thousand * In B.C. 113-101 . Marius finally defeated the Teutones at Aix , in the year 102 ; and the Cimbri , near Vercelli , in the year 101 . FOUNDATION OF BARBARIAN KINGDOMS . 27 Franks into Auvergne .
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... barbarian warriors who preferred war and pillage to a fixed habitation , entered the Roman armies . Their chieftains became generals , and even supplied the imperial court with ministers of state . Thus the barbarians were everywhere ...
... barbarian warriors who preferred war and pillage to a fixed habitation , entered the Roman armies . Their chieftains became generals , and even supplied the imperial court with ministers of state . Thus the barbarians were everywhere ...
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