The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 29Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1770 Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... Constantine , wherein the orator , ad- dreffing the emperor , told him , that he had ennobled Britain , illic oriendo ; which words , without the greatest violence and diftortion , can bear no other meaning than that of being born there ...
... Constantine , wherein the orator , ad- dreffing the emperor , told him , that he had ennobled Britain , illic oriendo ; which words , without the greatest violence and diftortion , can bear no other meaning than that of being born there ...
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... Constantine received in a dream the night before the battle with Maxentius , to caufe the monogram of Chrift to be engraved upon the bucklers of his army . The account of Sozomenus , who lived in the fifth century , only proves that ...
... Constantine received in a dream the night before the battle with Maxentius , to caufe the monogram of Chrift to be engraved upon the bucklers of his army . The account of Sozomenus , who lived in the fifth century , only proves that ...
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... Constantine being defirous of diftin- guishing his victory by a new epoch , removed it back to the autumnal equinox , which at that time fell on the 24th of September . There is not one of the cardinal points of the folar year , that ...
... Constantine being defirous of diftin- guishing his victory by a new epoch , removed it back to the autumnal equinox , which at that time fell on the 24th of September . There is not one of the cardinal points of the folar year , that ...
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... Constantine the Great , who makes the principal figure in it : that em- peror was guilty of fome crimes , which recalled the memory of the bloody reign of Nero , at the fame time that he had a zeal for religion , which caufed his ...
... Constantine the Great , who makes the principal figure in it : that em- peror was guilty of fome crimes , which recalled the memory of the bloody reign of Nero , at the fame time that he had a zeal for religion , which caufed his ...
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... Constantine from Rome to Constantinople , the dedication of which city lafted forty days . The emperor , intending to give the new city all . the luftre of Rome , granted it great privileges , among others , that which was called the ...
... Constantine from Rome to Constantinople , the dedication of which city lafted forty days . The emperor , intending to give the new city all . the luftre of Rome , granted it great privileges , among others , that which was called the ...
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againſt alfo almoſt alſo anſwer appears becauſe cafe caufe cauſe chalybeate character Chriftian circumftances confequence confiderable confidered Conftantine conftitution cuftoms defign defire difpofition diſcovered diſeaſe England eſtabliſhed faid fame fatire fays fecond feems felves fenfe fentiments ferve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fide fince firft firſt fituation folar fome fometimes foon fpirit France French ftate ftill ftrong fubject fuch fufficient fuppofed fupported fure fyftem give greateſt hiftory himſelf honour houfe houſe increaſed inftances intereft itſelf juft juftice juſt laft lefs letter likewife lord manner Maxentius meaſure Mifs minifters moft moſt muft muſt nation nature neceffary neral obfervations occafion paffage paffions parliament perfon philofophy phyficians pleaſe pleaſure poem prefent purpoſe racter reader reafon refpect reprefents Ruffia ſeems ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſtate thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thing thofe thoſe Timanthes tion tranflation uſe whofe writer