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But the useful prejudice, which has obtained the sanction of time and opinion, produces the effects of truth; the haughty Barbarians yield a cheerful and voluntary obedience to the head of their blood; and their chief, or mursa, as the representative of their great father, exercises the authority of a judge in peace, and of a leader in war.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Their independent spirit soon rejected the hereditary succession of the Tanjous; and while each horde was governed by its peculiar mursa, their tumultuary council directed the public measures of the whole nation.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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But the useful prejudice, which has obtained the sanction of time and opinion, produces the effects of truth; the haughty Barbarians yield a cheerful and voluntary obedience to the head of their blood; and their chief, or mursa, as the representative of their great father, exercises the authority of a judge in peace, and of a leader in war.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Their independent spirit soon rejected the hereditary succession of the Tanjous; and while each horde was governed by its peculiar mursa, their tumultuary council directed the public measures of the whole nation.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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But the useful prejudice, which has obtained the sanction of time and opinion, produces the effects of truth; the haughty Barbarians yield a cheerful and voluntary obedience to the head of their blood; and their chief, or mursa, as the representative of their great father, exercises the authority of a judge in peace, and of a leader in war.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Tanjous; and while each horde was governed by its peculiar mursa, their tumultuary council directed the public measures of the whole nation.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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