man Empire, Gibbon wrote of the nonconformistrnwho, in escaping from Rome,rncould once hope to find:rna secure refuge, a new fortune adequaternto his merit, the freedom ofrncomplaint, and perhaps the meansrnof revenge. But the empire of thernRomans filled the world, and,rnwhen that empire fell into thernhands of a . . .
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