Note 029 Mosheim, Institut. Hist. Eccles. p. 632. See, in Chardin's Travels, (tom. i. p. 171 - 174,) the manners and religion of this handsome but worthless nation. See the pedigree of their princes from Adam to the present century, in the tables of M. De Guignes, (tom. i. p. 433 - 438.)]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 57