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The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- Edward Gibbon
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- Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776). Chap. iii.
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