History of the Roman Empire, from the Accession of Augustus to the End of the Empire of the West: Being a Continuation of the History of Rome (Classic Reprint)

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The present volume is peculiarly valuable on many accounts. It embraces a period, the history of which exists in no accessible form, while its facts are Of a most interest ing and important nature, as connected with the rise, and Spread, and influence, and corruptions of the Christian church. It forms a connecting link between the times and nations properly called. Ancient, and those properly called modern, inasmuch as it displays the first inroads Of the peoples and races destined gradually to mould the latter, upon the strength, and power, and sway of the former, and their final rise upon their ruins.

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