A Universal Biography: 2d series. From the birth of Christ to the reformationSherwood, Jones & Company, 1825 |
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... length a great part of the host were destroyed by the plague , and the remainder were cut in pieces by the Bulgarians . Several cities of the empire were much injured by an earthquake during this disastrous reign . Constantine , whose ...
... length a great part of the host were destroyed by the plague , and the remainder were cut in pieces by the Bulgarians . Several cities of the empire were much injured by an earthquake during this disastrous reign . Constantine , whose ...
Σελίδα 8
... length , they were brought to sue for peace . Alexius , now grown old , and disabled by the gout , no more left his capital , but spent the latter part of his life in endeavouring to heal the divisions which rent the Greek church . He ...
... length , they were brought to sue for peace . Alexius , now grown old , and disabled by the gout , no more left his capital , but spent the latter part of his life in endeavouring to heal the divisions which rent the Greek church . He ...
Σελίδα 23
... length made upon very unfavourable terms to Henry , whose conduct on this occa- sion is supposed to have laid the foundation of that lasting enmity , which prevailed between the Norman kings of Eng- land and the kings of France . Pope ...
... length made upon very unfavourable terms to Henry , whose conduct on this occa- sion is supposed to have laid the foundation of that lasting enmity , which prevailed between the Norman kings of Eng- land and the kings of France . Pope ...
Σελίδα 28
... length pardons and marries Cid , forms the beauty of the piece . He died in 1089 . ALPHONSO VI . , king of Castile and Leon , succeeded his father Ferdinand in 1065 , but was expelled by his brother Sancho in 1072 ; whereupon he applied ...
... length pardons and marries Cid , forms the beauty of the piece . He died in 1089 . ALPHONSO VI . , king of Castile and Leon , succeeded his father Ferdinand in 1065 , but was expelled by his brother Sancho in 1072 ; whereupon he applied ...
Σελίδα 29
... length was subdued by famine . Boleslaus signalised his clemency and generosity in his treatment of the captured city , then the richest and most luxurious city of the north . But , like Capua , it proved the conqueror of its victor ...
... length was subdued by famine . Boleslaus signalised his clemency and generosity in his treatment of the captured city , then the richest and most luxurious city of the north . But , like Capua , it proved the conqueror of its victor ...
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Σελίδα 455 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil.
Σελίδα 18 - I have loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile...
Σελίδα 203 - Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Σελίδα 186 - Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him : I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Σελίδα 160 - Richard, therefore, concluded a truce with that monarch, and stipulated that Acre, Joppa, and other sea-port towns of Palestine, should remain in the hands of the Christians, and that every one of that religion should have liberty to perform his pilgrimage to Jerusalem unmolested.
Σελίδα 426 - ... burdens of the state, and left his kingdom to be plundered by a set of rapacious ministers. He did not survive the consequences of his bad conduct, but died about a year after the prince, at Sheene, in Surrey, deserted by all his courtiers, even by those who had grown rich by his bounty.
Σελίδα 440 - This gentleman being sent out by Henry, before the battle, to reconnoitre the enemy, and to find out their strength, made this report : — " May it please you, my liege, there are enough to be killed, enough to be taken prisoners, and enough to run away.
Σελίδα 78 - In this confession there was, among other tenets equally absurd, the following declaration: that " the bread and wine, after consecration, were not only a sacrament, but also the real body and blood of Jesus Christ; and that this body and blood were handled by the priests, and consumed by the faithful, and not in a sacramental sense, but in reality and truth, as other sensible objects are.
Σελίδα 38 - Godeva, bearing an extraordinary affection to this place, often and earnestly besought her husband that for the love of God and the blessed Virgin, he would free it from that grievous servitude whereunto it was subject : but he rebuking her for importuning him in a...
Σελίδα 192 - Innocent may boast of the two most signal triumphs over sense and humanity, the establishment of transubstantiation, and the origin of the inquisition.