Gibbon's History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, repr. with the omission of all passages of an irreligious or immoral tendency, by T. Bowdler, Volume 51826 |
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... chiefs of the first crusade I. Godfrey of Bouillon II . Hugh of Vermandois , Robert of Normandy , Robert of Flanders , Stephen of Chartres , & c . III . Raymond of Thoulouse a 4 A. D. IV . Bohemond and Tancred 1096-1097 . March CONTENTS ...
... chiefs of the first crusade I. Godfrey of Bouillon II . Hugh of Vermandois , Robert of Normandy , Robert of Flanders , Stephen of Chartres , & c . III . Raymond of Thoulouse a 4 A. D. IV . Bohemond and Tancred 1096-1097 . March CONTENTS ...
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... chief ; and Nicephorus was crowned with recent laurels , from the important conquest of the isle of Crete . His religion was of a more ambiguous cast ; and his hair - cloth , his fasts , his pious idiom , and his wish to retire from the ...
... chief ; and Nicephorus was crowned with recent laurels , from the important conquest of the isle of Crete . His religion was of a more ambiguous cast ; and his hair - cloth , his fasts , his pious idiom , and his wish to retire from the ...
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... chief . Recovery of The first tumult of slaughter and rapine subsided ; and the efforts of a hundred thousand Saracens , of the armies of Syria and the fleets of Afric , were consumed without effect before the walls of Antioch . The ...
... chief . Recovery of The first tumult of slaughter and rapine subsided ; and the efforts of a hundred thousand Saracens , of the armies of Syria and the fleets of Afric , were consumed without effect before the walls of Antioch . The ...
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... chief , became , in the year 862 , the father of a dynasty which reigned Varangians . above seven hundred years . Contemporary writers have recorded the introduction , name , and character of the Varangians at Constantinople . There ...
... chief , became , in the year 862 , the father of a dynasty which reigned Varangians . above seven hundred years . Contemporary writers have recorded the introduction , name , and character of the Varangians at Constantinople . There ...
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... estate was situate in the district of Castamona , in the neigh- bourhood of the Euxine ; and one of their chiefs , XLII . CHAP . who had already entered the paths C 4 OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE . 23 Constantine X Monomachus Theodora.
... estate was situate in the district of Castamona , in the neigh- bourhood of the Euxine ; and one of their chiefs , XLII . CHAP . who had already entered the paths C 4 OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE . 23 Constantine X Monomachus Theodora.
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