The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6Macmillan, 1914 - Byzantine Empire |
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... Historian Falcandus ... 1194 Conquest of the Kingdom of Sicily by the Emperor Henry VI .... 1204 Final Extinction of the Normans ... CHAPTER LVII The Turks of the House of Seljuk ― Their Revolt against Mahmud , Conqueror of Hindostan ...
... Historian Falcandus ... 1194 Conquest of the Kingdom of Sicily by the Emperor Henry VI .... 1204 Final Extinction of the Normans ... CHAPTER LVII The Turks of the House of Seljuk ― Their Revolt against Mahmud , Conqueror of Hindostan ...
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... historian of the present hour , who strives to follow the rapid course of the Saracens , must study to explain by what means the church and state were saved from this impending and , as it should seem , from this inevitable danger . The ...
... historian of the present hour , who strives to follow the rapid course of the Saracens , must study to explain by what means the church and state were saved from this impending and , as it should seem , from this inevitable danger . The ...
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... historian who presumes to analyse this extraordinary composition should suspect his own ignorance and that of his Byzantine guides , so prone to the marvellous , so careless , and in this in- stance so jealous , of the truth . From ...
... historian who presumes to analyse this extraordinary composition should suspect his own ignorance and that of his Byzantine guides , so prone to the marvellous , so careless , and in this in- stance so jealous , of the truth . From ...
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... historian and philo- sopher . 35 [ For the life and acts of Charles see Th . Breysig's monograph , Die Zeit Karl Martells , in the series of the Jahrbücher des fränkischen Reiches , 1869. ] are inferior to our own . " " If you 16 [ CHAP ...
... historian and philo- sopher . 35 [ For the life and acts of Charles see Th . Breysig's monograph , Die Zeit Karl Martells , in the series of the Jahrbücher des fränkischen Reiches , 1869. ] are inferior to our own . " " If you 16 [ CHAP ...
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... historian Abulfeda , " both horse and foot , was under arms , which together made a body of one hundred and sixty thousand men . His state - officers , the favour- ite slaves , stood near him in splendid apparel , their belts round city ...
... historian Abulfeda , " both horse and foot , was under arms , which together made a body of one hundred and sixty thousand men . His state - officers , the favour- ite slaves , stood near him in splendid apparel , their belts round city ...
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Page 27 - and honours, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to FOURTEEN
Page 12 - like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of an hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination. The use of the Greek or, as it might now be called, of the Saracen fire was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century,
Page 11 - which were planted on the prow of a galley, and fancifully shaped into the mouths of savage monsters, that seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire. This important art was preserved at Constantinople, as the palladium of the state; the galleys and artillery might occasionally be lent to the allies of
Page 450 - and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil. DIGRESSION ON THE FAMILY
Page 355 - the grandson of Barbarossa, was successively the pupil, the enemy, and the victim of the church. At the age of twenty-one years, and in obedience to his guardian Innocent the Third, he assumed the cross; the same promise was repeated at his royal and imperial coronations; and his marriage with the heiress of Jerusalem
Page 160 - ships of war, each of which, with its naval science and thundering artillery, could have sunk or scattered an hundred canoes, such as those of their ancestors. Perhaps the present generation may yet behold the accomplishment of the prediction, of a rare prediction, of which the style is unambiguous and the date unquestionable.
Page 25 - of dinars of gold. A pious and charitable motive may sanctify the foundation of cisterns and caravanseras, which he distributed along a measured road of seven hundred miles; but his train of camels, laden with snow, could serve only to astonish the natives of Arabia, and to refresh the fruits and liquors of the royal banquet.
Page 189 - His boundless ambition was founded on the consciousness of superior worth; in the pursuit of greatness, he was never arrested by the scruples of justice and seldom moved by the feelings of humanity; though not insensible of fame, the choice of open or clandestine means was determined only by his present advantage. The surname of Guiscard
Page 26 - of the gardens, one of these basons and fountains, so delightful in a sultry climate, was replenished not with water, but with the purest quicksilver. The seraglio of Abdalrahman, his wives, concubines, and black eunuchs, amounted to six thousand three hundred persons; and he was
Page 519 - the next day the insult was repeated, and they exulted in a second proof that the royal city was not beyond the reach of their artillery. Cantacuzene instantly signed his treaty with the Venetians; but the weight of the Roman empire was scarcely felt in the balance of these opulent and powerful republics.*