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... endeavours after univerfal monarchy have been bandied among them , from the reign of Ninus , to this of the Moft Chriftian King ; in which purfaits com- monwealths have had their fhare as well as monarchs : fo the Athenians , the ...
... endeavours after univerfal monarchy have been bandied among them , from the reign of Ninus , to this of the Moft Chriftian King ; in which purfaits com- monwealths have had their fhare as well as monarchs : fo the Athenians , the ...
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... endeavours of each of thefe three rivals after abfolute power ; but I fhall fuit my difcourfe to the time I am writing in , and relate only fuch diffenfions in Greece and Rome , between the nobles and commons , with the confequen . ces ...
... endeavours of each of thefe three rivals after abfolute power ; but I fhall fuit my difcourfe to the time I am writing in , and relate only fuch diffenfions in Greece and Rome , between the nobles and commons , with the confequen . ces ...
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... endeavours of Agis and Cleomenes to restore the ftate of Sparta , fo frequently haraffed by tyrannies occa- fioned by the popular practices of the Ephori , there was very little worth recording . All which confe- quences may perhaps be ...
... endeavours of Agis and Cleomenes to restore the ftate of Sparta , fo frequently haraffed by tyrannies occa- fioned by the popular practices of the Ephori , there was very little worth recording . All which confe- quences may perhaps be ...
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... endeavours for depreffing the nobles , and railing the people , particular- ly for cramping the former in their power of judicature , which was their most ancient inherent right . Sylla by the fame measures became abfolute tyrant of ...
... endeavours for depreffing the nobles , and railing the people , particular- ly for cramping the former in their power of judicature , which was their most ancient inherent right . Sylla by the fame measures became abfolute tyrant of ...
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... endeavours left them to pre- vent it . The people at first made Pompey their admiral with full power over all the Mediterranean , foon . after captain - general of all the Roman forces , and governor of Afia . Pompey , on the other fide ...
... endeavours left them to pre- vent it . The people at first made Pompey their admiral with full power over all the Mediterranean , foon . after captain - general of all the Roman forces , and governor of Afia . Pompey , on the other fide ...
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