Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome - $b to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of by Oliver Goldsmith
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the agrarian laws established a more equitable distribution of
property, and other popular laws opened the magistracy to merit without distinction of rank, than the city rose to empire with unexampled rapidity. FOOTNOTES: [1] The Licinian law provided that no one should rent at a time more than 500 acres of public land. [2] The league by which the Latin states were bound (jus Latii) was more favourable than that granted to the other Italians (jus Italicum.) * * * * * CHAPTER VI. THE ROMAN RELIGION. First to the gods 'tis fitting to prepare The due libation, and the solemn prayer; For all mankind alike require their grace, All born to want; a miserable race.--_Homer_. 1. We have shown that the Romans were, most probably, a people compounded of the Latins, the Sabines, and the Tuscans; and that the |
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