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 Rome, to enjoy municipal honours, and to obtain at the same time an exemption from the burdensome and expensive offices of society. The moderation or the contempt of the Romans gave a legal sanction to the form of ecclesiastical police which was instituted...  The Works of Edward Gibbon - Page 5 by Edward Gibbon - 1906 Full view - Palestine: Or, the Holy Land : from the Earliest Period to ... Michael Russell (bp. of Glasgow and Galloway.) |