The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 11Thomas M'Lean, 1827 |
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... king of Persia ; and Bajazet was condemned to represent the person , and expiate the guilt of the Roman Cæsar * But the strength of his mind and body fainted under the trial , and his premature death might , without injustice , he ...
... king of Persia ; and Bajazet was condemned to represent the person , and expiate the guilt of the Roman Cæsar * But the strength of his mind and body fainted under the trial , and his premature death might , without injustice , he ...
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... king of the world . The Greek emperor † ( either John or Manuel ) submitted to pay the same tribute which he had stipulated with the Turkish sultan , and ratified the treaty by an oath of Arabshah ( tom . ii . c . 25 ) describes , like ...
... king of the world . The Greek emperor † ( either John or Manuel ) submitted to pay the same tribute which he had stipulated with the Turkish sultan , and ratified the treaty by an oath of Arabshah ( tom . ii . c . 25 ) describes , like ...
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... king- doms of Christendom , of returning home by the deserts of Russia and Tartary . This remote and perhaps imaginary danger was averted by the sub- mission of the sultan of Egypt ; the honours of the prayer and the coin attested at ...
... king- doms of Christendom , of returning home by the deserts of Russia and Tartary . This remote and perhaps imaginary danger was averted by the sub- mission of the sultan of Egypt ; the honours of the prayer and the coin attested at ...
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... king of Castile ; and the curious relation of his two embassies is still extant ( Mariana , Hist . Hispan . 1. xix . c . 11 , tom . ii . p . 329 , 330. Avertissement à l'Hist . de Timur Bec , p . 28-33 ) . There appears likewise to have ...
... king of Castile ; and the curious relation of his two embassies is still extant ( Mariana , Hist . Hispan . 1. xix . c . 11 , tom . ii . p . 329 , 330. Avertissement à l'Hist . de Timur Bec , p . 28-33 ) . There appears likewise to have ...
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... king , and the other powers of the West ; but he found them cold in the general cause , and active only in their do- mestic quarrels . The last hope of the emperor was in an English mercenary , John Hawkwood † , or Acuto , who with a ...
... king , and the other powers of the West ; but he found them cold in the general cause , and active only in their do- mestic quarrels . The last hope of the emperor was in an English mercenary , John Hawkwood † , or Acuto , who with a ...
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