The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 7G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... Roman Embassy , 428 A.D. ) We follow honest Maximin and his friend as they journey northwards into the recesses of Hungary . For a certain dis- tance they traveled in the train of the barbarian ; then they received orders to turn off ...
... Roman Embassy , 428 A.D. ) We follow honest Maximin and his friend as they journey northwards into the recesses of Hungary . For a certain dis- tance they traveled in the train of the barbarian ; then they received orders to turn off ...
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... Roman gov- ernor of Noricum , Count Romulus of Passau , the father - in - law of Orestes , and Romanus , a general of legionaries , with probably a long train of attendants , were already testing , perhaps some- what severely , the ...
... Roman gov- ernor of Noricum , Count Romulus of Passau , the father - in - law of Orestes , and Romanus , a general of legionaries , with probably a long train of attendants , were already testing , perhaps some- what severely , the ...
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... Roman secretary of Attila , journeyed , in an unofficial capacity , with the ambassadors . It was certainly a striking scene : the ambassadors from Ravenna and Constantinople , the representatives of the dignity of the two Imperial ...
... Roman secretary of Attila , journeyed , in an unofficial capacity , with the ambassadors . It was certainly a striking scene : the ambassadors from Ravenna and Constantinople , the representatives of the dignity of the two Imperial ...
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... Roman province of Pannonia ; and in fact all the timber used in the settlement had been imported likewise , for in the vast and dreary plain where the nomad nation had pitched its camp , not a tree was growing , not a stone underlay it ...
... Roman province of Pannonia ; and in fact all the timber used in the settlement had been imported likewise , for in the vast and dreary plain where the nomad nation had pitched its camp , not a tree was growing , not a stone underlay it ...
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... Romans and the Acatziri , I surrendered to my master all the spoils which I had taken in war , and thus , according ... Roman - land are easily worsted in war , because they place their hopes of safety on others rather than themselves ...
... Romans and the Acatziri , I surrendered to my master all the spoils which I had taken in war , and thus , according ... Roman - land are easily worsted in war , because they place their hopes of safety on others rather than themselves ...
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