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  • Whatever aera is chosen for that purpose, the death of the apostles, the conversion of the Roman empire, or the extinction of the Arian heresy, 82 the insensibility of the Christians who lived at that time will equally afford a just matter of surprise.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • 86 While they sigh for past greatness, they are doubtless sensible of present blessings: in the long series of the Courtenay annals, the most splendid aera is likewise the most unfortunate; nor can an opulent peer of

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Tables of the Art de Verifier les Dates.)] 87 His bounteous edict, which tempted the grateful city to assume the victory of Pharsalia for a perpetual aera, is given.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Constantine is the aera which is most usually fixed by Protestants.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Pagi, Cardinal Norris, and Le Clerc, seems at least as probable as the vulgar aera, which is placed (I know not from what conjectures) four years later.] [Footnote 31a: This single phrase, Repressa in praesens exitiabilis superstitio rursus erumpebat, proves that the Christians had already attracted the attention of the government; and that Nero was not the first to persecute them.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • Aero-TV: New 'aera' for Garmin - Raising the Bar for GPS Portables

    Aero-News Network 2009

  • Garmin Intro's New Touchscreen GPS Portable, The 'aera'

    Aero-News Network 2009

  • In the long series of ecclesiastical history, does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles?] [Footnote 82: The conversion of Constantine is the aera which is most usually fixed by Protestants.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • Being a advide hiker and amuture photographer I have been in the places the deer love around catoosa and through catoosa and can say for sure from pictures I have taken in the past that there is a large number of deer in the aera unfortiantly they are smarter than the average hunter and know that you are to lazy to go tracking down the side of a gourge to find them.

    100 Best Public-Land Hunts: Tennessee 2007

  • Tanta gratia vocis famam conciliabat, saith Petronius [5079] in his fragment of pure impurities, I mean his Satyricon, tam dulcis sonus permulcebat aera, ut putares inter auras cantare

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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