The Holy Roman Empire

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Macmillan, 1887 - 479 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 115 - He shall judge the poor of the people, He shall save the children of the needy, And shall break in pieces the oppressor. 5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, Throughout all generations.
Σελίδα 354 - With unexpected legions bursts away, And sees defenceless realms receive his sway: Short sway ! fair Austria spreads her mournful charms, The queen, the beauty, sets the world, in arms...
Σελίδα 74 - Jerusalem), with the earlier remains of our Saxon Edifices. Now the architecture of the Holy Land was Grecian, but greatly fallen from its ancient elegance. Our Saxon performance was indeed a bad copy of it ; and as much inferior to the works of St.
Σελίδα 181 - Emperor lies amid his knights in an enchanted sleep, waiting the hour when the ravens shall cease to hover round the peak, and the pear-tree blossom in the valley, to descend with his Crusaders and bring back to Germany the golden age of peace and strength and unity.
Σελίδα 65 - At the same time it shall be publicly explained to all what is the force and meaning of this oath, and how much more it includes than a mere promise of fidelity to the monarch's person. Firstly, it binds those who swear it to live, each and every one of them, according to his strength and knowledge, in the holy service of God; since the lord Emperor cannot extend over all his care and discipline. Secondly, it binds them neither by force nor fraud to seize or molest any of the goods or servants of...
Σελίδα 269 - Caesar, therefore, shew towards Peter the reverence wherewith a firstborn son honours his father, that, being illumined by the light of his paternal favour, he may the more excellently shine forth upon the whole world, to the rule of which he has been appointed by Him alone who is of all things, both spiritual and temporal, the King and Governor.
Σελίδα 357 - Of the love of country, I have no conception ; it appears to me, at best, a heroic weakness which I am right glad to be without.
Σελίδα 180 - Untersberg frowns over the road which winds up a long defile to the glen and lake of Berchtesgaden. There, far up among its limestone crags, in a spot scarcely accessible to human foot, the peasants of the valley point out to the traveller the black mouth of a cavern and tell him that, within, Barbarossa lies...
Σελίδα 113 - Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
Σελίδα 210 - With Frederick fell the Empire. From the ruin that overwhelmed the greatest of its houses it emerged, living, indeed, and destined to a long life, but so shattered, crippled, and degraded, that it could never be to Europe and to Germany what it had once been."1 The " likeness of the kingly crown " of Hohenstaufen was indeed prolonged for four troubled years.

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