Pictorial History of the Middle Ages: From the Death of Constantine the Great to the Discovery of America by ColumbusC. J. Gillis, 1846 - 360 sivua |
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afterwards arms army attacked Austrasia Avars Baldwin barbarians battle became Belisarius besieged bishops brother Brunehaut Burgundy caliph captured Carloman caused Charlemagne Charles Charles the Bald Childebert Chilperic Christian church clergy Clotaire Clovis command commenced compelled conqueror conquest Constantine Constantinople crown crusaders Dagobert Danes death defeated died dominions Duke Edward election emperor empire enemy England English Europe father fell fled followed forced France Franks gave Germany Godfrey Gontran Greeks Gregory Henry Heraclius Holy Hugh Capet imperial invaded Italy Jerusalem Justinian king kingdom land Lombards Lothaire Louis marched Mohammed monarch murdered Neustria nobles Norman Normandy Odoacer Otho papal peace Pepin Philip pontiff pope possession prince prisoner provinces queen received reign returned revolt Richard Robert ROBERT GUISCARD Roman Rome Saladin Saracens Saxons sent siege slain soldiers soon sovereign Stilicho succeeded successor sword territory Theodebert Thierry thousand throne took treaty troops Turks Venedes victory Visigoths
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Sivu 14 - If we consider literature in its widest sense, as the voice which gives expression to human intellect, — as the aggregate mass of symbols, in which the spirit of an age, or the character of a nation, is shadowed forth...
Sivu 120 - ... marriage had raised him above the pressure of want, he avoided the paths of ambition and avarice; and till the age of forty, he lived with innocence, and would have died without a name. The unity of God is an idea...
Sivu 119 - In the familiar offices of life he scrupulously adhered to the grave and ceremonious politeness of his country: his respectful attention to the rich and powerful was dignified by his condescension and affability...
Sivu 123 - Jerusalem, an obscure town on the confines of Syria was pillaged by the Saracens, and they cut in pieces some troops who advanced to its relief: an ordinary and trifling occurrence, had it not been the prelude of a mighty revolution. These robbers were the apostles of Mahomet; their fanatic valour had emerged from the desert; and in the last eight years of his reign Heraclius lost to the Arabs the same provinces which he had rescued from the Persians.
Sivu 354 - ... them. In the works of this great moralist, the duties of the sovereign are as strictly laid down as those of his subjects ; and while they are enjoined to obey him as a father, he is exhorted to take care of them as though they were his children. There was nothing new in this patriarchal system of government, which had existed from the very beginning of the monarchy ; but it was brought into a more perfect form, and the mutual obligations of princes and people were more clearly defined, than...
Sivu 144 - In the name of the most merciful God, Harun al Rashid, commander of the faithful, to Nicephorus, the Roman dog. I have read thy letter, O thou son of an unbelieving mother. Thou shalt not hear, thou shalt behold my reply.
Sivu 267 - Damascus soon after concluding this truce with the princes of the crusade : it is memorable that, before he expired, he ordered his winding-sheet to be carried as a standard through every street of the city; while a crier went before, and proclaimed with a loud voice, " This is all that remains to the mighty Saladin, the conqueror of the East.
Sivu 149 - Leo suddenly placed a precious crown on his head, and the dome resounded with the acclamations of the people, long life and victory to Charles, the most pious Augustus, crowned by God, the great and pacific emperor of the Romans.
Sivu 25 - Ambrose was tempered by prudence ; and he contented himself with signifying an indirect sort of excommunication, by the assurance that he had been warned in a vision not to offer the oblation in the name or in the presence of Theodosius ; and by the advice that he would confine himself to the use of prayer, without presuming to approach the altar of Christ, or to receive the Holy Eucharist with those hands that were still polluted with the blood of an innocent people. The emperor was deeply...
Sivu 120 - From enthusiasm to imposture, the step is perilous and slippery : the daemon of Socrates affords a memorable instance, how a wise man may deceive himself, how a good man may deceive others, how the conscience may slumber in a mixed and middle state between self-illusion and voluntary fraud.