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... Rome . The northern branches of the Aryan stock , the Keltic , Teutonic , and Slavonic nations , were far behind their four great sisters . While Rome was the empress of the world , and Greece was sovereign in the world of thought , the ...
... Rome . The northern branches of the Aryan stock , the Keltic , Teutonic , and Slavonic nations , were far behind their four great sisters . While Rome was the empress of the world , and Greece was sovereign in the world of thought , the ...
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... Rome , and of her Teutonic sister to overcome Rome . The Romans had a hard fight to conquer Gaul ; nearly Conquest of a million of brave Kelts are said to have perished Britain by by the sword of Julius Cæsar . The conquest the Romans ...
... Rome , and of her Teutonic sister to overcome Rome . The Romans had a hard fight to conquer Gaul ; nearly Conquest of a million of brave Kelts are said to have perished Britain by by the sword of Julius Cæsar . The conquest the Romans ...
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... Rome . Our land dwelt once under the shadow of the Roman name , but our fathers never did . Rome has influenced us deeply , will ever influence us , by the potent seeds which she has cast into the field of modern civilisation , but this ...
... Rome . Our land dwelt once under the shadow of the Roman name , but our fathers never did . Rome has influenced us deeply , will ever influence us , by the potent seeds which she has cast into the field of modern civilisation , but this ...
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... Rome was sacked by Alaric the Goth , and the same century saw the domain of the Empire in Gaul , Italy , and Spain divided amongst the Teutonic emigrants . Britain shared in the fate of the Empire , but in an even sterner degree . The ...
... Rome was sacked by Alaric the Goth , and the same century saw the domain of the Empire in Gaul , Italy , and Spain divided amongst the Teutonic emigrants . Britain shared in the fate of the Empire , but in an even sterner degree . The ...
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... Rome from 590 to 604 . In his time the popes of Rome had not yet risen to the position of universal bishops and supreme heads of the Church , though they were tending towards it . All men were agreed that there must be one and only one ...
... Rome from 590 to 604 . In his time the popes of Rome had not yet risen to the position of universal bishops and supreme heads of the Church , though they were tending towards it . All men were agreed that there must be one and only one ...
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