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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 227

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, nothing could make its wayexcept a panic, which will always find room to run through an entirearmy. Though presenting, by these means, a formidable front, theirline was no sooner broken than they offered a most unprotected rear toan active foe, and the Greek files-on the occasion in question… … CHAP XIX.] FREEDOM OF GREECE PROCLAIMED. 195 desirous to hide his face iu its well-known vale after bis discomfiture.Here he negotiated an arrangement, which may he termed the peace ofthe valley, though it was a kind of peace with which he could scarcelybe contented, for it stipulated that he…

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