The Historians' History of the World: The later Roman empireHenry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 - World History |
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Aistulf Alboin Alexius alliance ancient Andronicus arms army Asia attack Attila Austrasia Avars barbarians battle Belisarius bishops brother Bulgarians Byzantine Byzantine Empire camp capital captive Carloman century Charlemagne Charles Charles the Bald Christian church clergy Clovis command compelled conqueror conquest Conrad Constantine Constantinople crown Danube daughter death defeated defence dominions duke East Eastern ecclesiastical emperor enemy father favour fleet forces Frankish Franks Gaul Gepids German Gothic Goths Greek Henry Heraclius honour Huns imperial inhabitants invaded Italy Joannes Justinian king kingdom land Latin Liutprand Lombards Lothair Ludwig Manuel marched Michael military Mohammedans monarch Narses nation Nicæa Nicephorus nobles Odoacer Otto palace patriarch peace Pepin Persian pope possession prince Procopius provinces Ravenna reign restored Roman Empire Rome royal Saracens Saxons siege soldiers soon sovereign subjects success successor sword Theodoric Theodosius thousand Thrace throne tion Totila treaty troops Turks valour vassals victory Visigoths Witiges
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Page 129 - The vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust ; but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the CODE, the PANDECTS, and the INSTITUTES ; the public reason of the Romans has been silently or studiously transfused into the domestic institutions of Europe, and the laws of Justinian still command the respect or obedience of independent nations.
Page 340 - ... accumulated mass. To fill the ditch was the toil of the besiegers : to clear away the rubbish was the safety of the besieged ; and, after a long and bloody conflict, the web that had been woven in the day was still unravelled in the night. The next resource of Mahomet was the practice of mines ; but the soil was rocky ; in every attempt, he was stopped and undermined by the Christian engineers: nor had the art been yet invented of replenishing those subterraneous passages with gunpowder, and...
Page 343 - Sophia, which in a few hours was to be converted into a mosque, and devoutly received, with tears and prayers, the sacrament of the holy communion. He reposed some moments in the palace, which resounded with cries and lamentations; solicited the pardon of all whom he might have injured; and mounted on horseback to visit the guards and explore the motions of the enemy.
Page 49 - Gothic historian, bore the stamp of his national origin; and the portrait of Attila exhibits the genuine deformity of a modern Calmuk; a large head, a swarthy complexion, small, deep-seated eyes, a flat nose, a few hairs in the place of a beard, broad shoulders, and a short square body, of nervous strength, though of a disproportioned form.
Page 347 - Ottomans was fifty, perhaps an hundred times superior to that of the Christians: the double walls were reduced by the cannon to a heap of ruins: in a circuit of several miles, some places must be found more easy of access, or more feebly guarded...
Page 387 - ... have possessed the intrepid calmness, which he affected to seek. Suspense, the worst of evils, was at length determined by the ministers of death, who executed, and perhaps exceeded, the inhuman mandate of Theodoric. A strong cord was fastened round the head of Boethius, and forcibly tightened, till his eyes almost started from their sockets ; and some mercy may be discovered in the milder torture of beating him with clubs till he expired.
Page 377 - Although your servant is maintained in affluence by your liberality, graciously listen to the wishes of my heart ! Italy, the inheritance of your predecessors, and Rome itself, the head and mistress of the world, now fluctuate under the violence and oppression of Odoacer the mercenary. Direct me, with my national troops, to march against the tyrant. If I fall, you will be relieved from an expensive and troublesome friend : if, with the Divine permission, I succeed, I shall govern in your name, and...
Page 347 - Christian to cut off my head ? " and his last fear was that of falling alive into the hands of the infidels. The prudent despair of Constantine cast away the purple ; amidst the tumult he fell by an unknown hand, and his body was buried under a mountain of the slain. After his death, resistance and order were no more ; the...
Page 258 - ... confidence. In his last hours, when he was pressed by his wife Irene to alter the succession, he raised his head and breathed a pious ejaculation on the vanity of this world. The indignant reply of the Empress may be inscribed as an epitaph on his tomb — ' You die as you have lived— an hypocrite.
Page 129 - ... than his conjugal tenderness for Theodora ; and his abstemious diet was regulated, not by the prudence of a philosopher, but the superstition of a monk. His repasts were short and frugal ; on solemn fasts he contented himself with water and vegetables ; and such was his strength as well as fervour, that he frequently passed two days, and as many nights, without tasting any food.