The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Zväzok 5P. F. Collier & Son, 1899 |
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Strana 11
... five hundred years , it was released by some pru . dent bishop , and seasonably presented to the devotion of the times . Its first and most glorious exploit was the deliverance of the city from the arms of Chosroes Nushirvan ; and it ...
... five hundred years , it was released by some pru . dent bishop , and seasonably presented to the devotion of the times . Its first and most glorious exploit was the deliverance of the city from the arms of Chosroes Nushirvan ; and it ...
Strana 38
... five succeeding reigns , a period of thirty - eight years , the contest was maintained , with unabated rage and various success , between the worshippers and the breakers of the images ; but I am not inclined to pursue with minute ...
... five succeeding reigns , a period of thirty - eight years , the contest was maintained , with unabated rage and various success , between the worshippers and the breakers of the images ; but I am not inclined to pursue with minute ...
Strana 42
... five years . On the whole series the average is anout eight years -a short hope for an ambitious cardinal . 1 The assurance of Anastasius ( tom . iii . pars i . p . 197 , 198 ) is sup ported by the credulity of some French annalists ...
... five years . On the whole series the average is anout eight years -a short hope for an ambitious cardinal . 1 The assurance of Anastasius ( tom . iii . pars i . p . 197 , 198 ) is sup ported by the credulity of some French annalists ...
Strana 45
... five hundred Saxons who were beheaded on the same spot , would have something to allege against the justice and humanity of Charlemagne . His treatment of the vanquished Saxons 98 was an abuse of the right of conquest ; his laws were ...
... five hundred Saxons who were beheaded on the same spot , would have something to allege against the justice and humanity of Charlemagne . His treatment of the vanquished Saxons 98 was an abuse of the right of conquest ; his laws were ...
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... five feet nine inches of French , about six feet one inch and a fourth English , measure . The romance writers have increased it to eight feet , and the giant was endowed with matchless strength and appetite : at a single stroke of his ...
... five feet nine inches of French , about six feet one inch and a fourth English , measure . The romance writers have increased it to eight feet , and the giant was endowed with matchless strength and appetite : at a single stroke of his ...
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Strana 43 - Long life and victory to Charles, the most pious Augustus, crowned by God the great and pacific emperor of the Romans...
Strana 103 - ... shame or reproach, but he was reduced to a narrow circle of existence, and deprived of those faithful mirrors, which reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Strana 102 - ... been refused. Before he spoke, the orator engaged on his side the affections of a public or private audience. They applauded his commanding presence, his majestic aspect, his piercing eye, his gracious smile, his flowing beard, his countenance that painted every sensation of the soul, and his gestures that enforced each expression of the tongue.
Strana 288 - A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles from the rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire ; the repetition of an equal space would have carried the Saracens to the confines of Poland and the Highlands of Scotland ; the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames.
Strana 145 - Ayesha, the best beloved of all his wives ; he fainted with the violence of pain ; recovering his spirits, he raised his eyes towards the roof of the house, and, with a steady look, though a faltering voice, uttered the last broken, though articulate, words : " O God ! pardon my sins Yes, I come, among my fellow-citizens on high :" and thus peaceably expired (AD 632.
Strana 130 - God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting or prayer : whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven ; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk ; and the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim.
Strana 299 - have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace : beloved by " my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. " Riches 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 : — O man ! place not thy confidence in this present
Strana 163 - He pressed his friends to consult their safety by a timely flight: they unanimously refused to desert or survive their beloved master: and their courage was fortified by a fervent prayer and the assurance of paradise. On the morning of the fatal day, he mounted on horseback, with his sword in one hand and the Koran in the other: his generous...
Strana 109 - Koran," according to himself or his disciples, is uncreated and eternal; subsisting in the essence of the Deity, and inscribed with a pen of light on the table of his everlasting decrees. A paper copy, in a volume of silk and gems, was brought down to the lowest heaven by the angel Gabriel, who, under the Jewish...
Strana 381 - They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind.