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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 203
by Edward Gibbon - 1855
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8

Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...destructive velocity. The precise sera of the invention and application of gun-powder *l isinvolved in doubtful traditions and equivocal language ; yet...to the states of Germany, Italy, Spain France, and England." The priority of nations is of small account; none could derive any exclusive benefit from...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 12

Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 558 pages
...irresistible and destructive velocity. The precise sera of the invention and application of gunpowder f is involved in doubtful traditions and equivocal language...artillery in battles and sieges, by sea and land, • . • „ , ', * See the entertaining and judicious letters of Busbequius. -f- The ist and 2d volumes...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8

Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...irresistible and destructive velocity. The precise aera of the invention and application of gunpowder91 is involved in doubtful traditions and equivocal language...to the states of Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and England9*. The priority of nations is of small account ; none could derive any exclusive benefit from...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6

Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...irresistible and destructive velocity. The precise era of the invention and application ol gunpowder91 is involved in doubtful traditions and equivocal language...battles and sieges, by sea and land, was familiar to the statesof Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and England. w The priority of nations is of small account...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8

Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 492 pages
...invention and application of gun- CHAP. power y is involved in doubtful traditions and equivocal LXV. language; yet we may clearly discern, that it was...to the states of Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and England1. The priority of nations is of small account; none could derive any exclusive benefit from...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...strong tube, a ball of stone or iron might be expelled with irresistible and destructive velocity. The rished here; And not the lightest leaf, but trembling...tattered mantle and her hood of straw; Her moving England. The priority of nations is of small account ; none could derive any exclusive benefit from...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...strong tube, a ball of stone or iron might be expelled with irresistible and destructive velocity. The precise era of the invention and application of gunpowder...to the states of Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and England. The priority of nations is of small account ; none could derive any exclusive benefit from...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6

Edward Gibbon - 1851 - 694 pages
...entertaining and judicious letters of Busbequius. cise sera of the invention and application of gunpowder91 is involved in doubtful traditions and equivocal 'language...to the states of Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and England.92 The priority of nations is of small account ; none could derive any exclusive benefit from...
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Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Book of Revelation

Albert Barnes - 1852 - 530 pages
...strong tube, a ball of stone or iron might be expelled with irresistible and destructive velocity. The precise era of the invention and application of gunpowder...to the states of Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and England. The priority of nations is of small account; none would derive any exclusive benefit from...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6

Edward Gibbon - 1852 - 656 pages
...entertaining and judicious letters of BusbcquiuB. sera of the invention and application of gunpowder91 13 involved in doubtful traditions and equivocal language...fourteenth century ; and that before the end of the sumo, the use of artillery in battles and sieges, by sea and land, was familiar to the states of Germany,...
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