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... OXFORD AUTHOR OF " THE LIFE AND PRINCIPATE OF THE EMPEROR NERO CIVIL WAR AND REBELLION IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE , ETC. 64 " LONDON DUCKWORTH & CO . 3 HENRIETTA STREET , COVENT GARDEN To W. WARDE FOWLER , ESQ . ( Lincoln College.
... OXFORD AUTHOR OF " THE LIFE AND PRINCIPATE OF THE EMPEROR NERO CIVIL WAR AND REBELLION IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE , ETC. 64 " LONDON DUCKWORTH & CO . 3 HENRIETTA STREET , COVENT GARDEN To W. WARDE FOWLER , ESQ . ( Lincoln College.
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... Roman History is that of a process first , and , secondly , that of a method . The process is the course of events by which a city on the western side of Italy came in the course of centuries to acquire an Empire which included all ...
... Roman History is that of a process first , and , secondly , that of a method . The process is the course of events by which a city on the western side of Italy came in the course of centuries to acquire an Empire which included all ...
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Bernard William Henderson. Acquisition , and that of the Maintenance , of the Empire . The death of Julius Cæsar in 44 B.C. marks a rough boundary between the two . Yet this is but a rough - hewn division . Great parts of the Roman Empire ...
Bernard William Henderson. Acquisition , and that of the Maintenance , of the Empire . The death of Julius Cæsar in 44 B.C. marks a rough boundary between the two . Yet this is but a rough - hewn division . Great parts of the Roman Empire ...
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... Empire on anything but the Will to Power ? Athens ' Empire , despite magniloquence , was so based , and it lasted barely half a century . Sparta in- herited her task . Owing to her usual stupidity she incurred a speedier failure . Then ...
... Empire on anything but the Will to Power ? Athens ' Empire , despite magniloquence , was so based , and it lasted barely half a century . Sparta in- herited her task . Owing to her usual stupidity she incurred a speedier failure . Then ...
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... Empire planted a victorious Hellenism on the shores of Oxus and of Indus . True , the political independence of the Greek City State was now dead . But the Greek city under Macedonian sway exhibited a sturdy life of its own . And only ...
... Empire planted a victorious Hellenism on the shores of Oxus and of Indus . True , the political independence of the Greek City State was now dead . But the Greek city under Macedonian sway exhibited a sturdy life of its own . And only ...
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