Great Events: Described by Distinguished Historians, Chroniclers, and Other WritersFrancis Lieber Harper, 1862 - 415 strán (strany) |
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Great Events, described by distinguished historians, chroniclers and other ... Franz LIEBER Úplné zobrazenie - 1840 |
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ancient ancient Greece arms army artillery assault attack Auvergne Bailiff Basha bastion batteries battle besieged Bishop body breach brother called cannon canton of Switzerland Cardinal carried castle Catholic Caudium celebrated Christ Christian Church command Constantinople consuls council courage court Criton death defend Demaratus ditch Duke Elector Emperor empire enemy England Ephialtes fear fire fleet force fortifications French German Grand Signior Grand-master Greece Greeks hand Holy honor hundred Huss Infidels inhabitants intrenchments island Italy Janizaries King Knights Landamman landvogt Leonidas likewise Liternum Locri Lord Luther master Medes Mohammed noble officers passed peace Peloponnesus Persians person Phoceans Pope Prince prisoners quoth Rhodes Roman Rome ruins Samnites Schwytz sent side siege Socrates soldiers Soliman Spain Spaniards Spanish Sparta succor Sultan Switzerland sword Thessaly thing thousand tion town troops Turkish Turks Unterwalden valor vessels victory wall whole word Xerxes
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Strana 146 - THE Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion...
Strana 315 - My loving people ! We have been persuaded, by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery ; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.
Strana 315 - I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman ; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm...
Strana 129 - But their strength and ammunition were exhausted in this laborious defence ; the ditch was filled with the bodies of the slain ; they supported the footsteps of their companions ; and of this devoted vanguard, the death was more serviceable than the life. Under their respective bashaws and sanjaks,* the troops of Anatolia and Romania were successively led to the charge.
Strana 276 - I take God and all the world to witness that I have been to you a true, humble, and obedient wife, ever conformable to your will and pleasure...
Strana 110 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."* — Church History.
Strana 278 - I could in my fantasy wish or desire. She hath all the virtuous qualities that ought to be in a woman of her dignity, or in any other of baser estate. Surely she is also a noble woman born, if nothing were in her, but only her conditions will well declare the same.
Strana 122 - ... bravest of the Janizaries might tremble on a new element. In the Christian squadron five stout and lofty ships were guided by skilful pilots, and manned with the veterans of Italy and Greece, long practised in the arts and perils of the sea. Their weight was directed to sink or scatter the weak obstacles that impeded their passage: their artillery swept the waters; their liquid fire was poured on the heads of the adversaries, who, with the design of boarding, presumed to approach them; and the...
Strana 280 - Canterbury, axing your licence (forasmuch as you were our metropolitan) to put this matter in question ; and so I did of all you, my lords, to the which ye have all granted by writing under all your seals, the which I have here to be showed.
Strana 137 - From St. Sophia he proceeded to the august, but desolate mansion of a hundred successors of the great Constantine, but which in a few hours had been stripped of the pomp of royalty. A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness forced itself on his mind; and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry: "The spider has wove his web in the Imperial palace; and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab.