A Universal Biography: 2d series. From the birth of Christ to the reformationSherwood, Jones & Company, 1825 |
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... person to succeed him . Constantine had obtained reputation as an orator and a judge , but was ill - suited to ... persons , passed the Danube , and laid the country waste . They penetrated even into Greece , and defeated the imperial ...
... person to succeed him . Constantine had obtained reputation as an orator and a judge , but was ill - suited to ... persons , passed the Danube , and laid the country waste . They penetrated even into Greece , and defeated the imperial ...
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... person , was commuted for a short exile ; after which the imperial widow nominated him to the command of her armies , and in 1067 , she married him , and he was proclaimed emperor . He had not occupied the throne more than two months ...
... person , was commuted for a short exile ; after which the imperial widow nominated him to the command of her armies , and in 1067 , she married him , and he was proclaimed emperor . He had not occupied the throne more than two months ...
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... person against the Turks , who had made incursions to the gates of Nice , and gave them a signal defeat ; but they returned in the following year , and several actions ensued between them and the emperor's lieutenants , till at length ...
... person against the Turks , who had made incursions to the gates of Nice , and gave them a signal defeat ; but they returned in the following year , and several actions ensued between them and the emperor's lieutenants , till at length ...
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... person , from which it declin- ed at his death , or rather at the death of his minister Nizam . IBRAHIM , the son of Massoud , eighth caliph of the dy- nasty of Gaznevides , succeeded his brother Ferokzad . He acquired great reputation ...
... person , from which it declin- ed at his death , or rather at the death of his minister Nizam . IBRAHIM , the son of Massoud , eighth caliph of the dy- nasty of Gaznevides , succeeded his brother Ferokzad . He acquired great reputation ...
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... person of great civil and mili- tary talents , not only brave but politic ; so that he derived his surname of Guiscard from a word , signifying craft or prudence , in the Norman dialect . His ambition was little tempered either with ...
... person of great civil and mili- tary talents , not only brave but politic ; so that he derived his surname of Guiscard from a word , signifying craft or prudence , in the Norman dialect . His ambition was little tempered either with ...
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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.