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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LX: The Fourth Crusade
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119) pours forth a torrent of learning on the _Gonfanon Imperial_.

This banner of the Virgin is shown at Venice as a trophy and relic: if it be genuine the pious doge must have cheated the monks of Citeaux.] [Footnote 80: Villehardouin (No.

126) confesses, that mult ere grant peril; and Guntherus (Hist.

C.P.c.

13) affirms, that nulla spes victoriae arridere poterat.


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