Outlines of History: With Original Tables, Chronological, Genealogical and LiteraryClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger., 1870 - 238 من الصفحات |
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... succeeded in getting him condemned by the Church . He sought and found a refuge at Cluny , where he died two years afterwards . Abulfeda . A celebrated Mohammedan historian and geographer , who wrote a compendious History of Mankind ...
... succeeded in getting him condemned by the Church . He sought and found a refuge at Cluny , where he died two years afterwards . Abulfeda . A celebrated Mohammedan historian and geographer , who wrote a compendious History of Mankind ...
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... succeeded Elagabalus in the following year . The principal event of his reign was the war with Artaxerxes , king of Persia , over whom he gained a great victory . He next marched against the Germans , who had invaded Gaul ; and , while ...
... succeeded Elagabalus in the following year . The principal event of his reign was the war with Artaxerxes , king of Persia , over whom he gained a great victory . He next marched against the Germans , who had invaded Gaul ; and , while ...
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... succeeded to the throne in 871 , in his 22d year , at a time when his kingdom was troubled by do- mestic dissensions , and the Danish invasion . But he finally secured the peace of his dominions , and struck terror into his enemies ...
... succeeded to the throne in 871 , in his 22d year , at a time when his kingdom was troubled by do- mestic dissensions , and the Danish invasion . But he finally secured the peace of his dominions , and struck terror into his enemies ...
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... succeeded in restoring , in some degree , the integrity of the mon- archy . From the ruins of old Troy to the Caucasus and the farthest con- fines of Media , the whole of Syria , Phoenicia , and Asia Minor belonged to him . He scarcely ...
... succeeded in restoring , in some degree , the integrity of the mon- archy . From the ruins of old Troy to the Caucasus and the farthest con- fines of Media , the whole of Syria , Phoenicia , and Asia Minor belonged to him . He scarcely ...
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... succeeded in eman- cipating his countrymen , they proclaimed him their king . He reigned prosperously for thirty - three years . Assyrian Empire . See Appendix , page 171 . Athanasius . See ST . ATHANASIUS . Attila , ( 453 A. D. ...
... succeeded in eman- cipating his countrymen , they proclaimed him their king . He reigned prosperously for thirty - three years . Assyrian Empire . See Appendix , page 171 . Athanasius . See ST . ATHANASIUS . Attila , ( 453 A. D. ...
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الصفحة 167 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three...
الصفحة 136 - Shakspeare is the chief of all Poets hitherto ; the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world, has left record of himself in the way of Literature. On the whole, I know not such a power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters of it, in any other man. Such a calmness of depth; placid joyous strength; all things imaged in that great soul of his so true and clear, as in a tranquil unfathomable sea!
الصفحة 167 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
الصفحة 189 - The human avalanche, which for thirteen years had alarmed the nations from the Danube to the Ebro, from the Seine to the Po, rested beneath the sod or toiled under the yoke of slavery ; the forlorn hope of the German migrations had performed its duty ; the homeless people of the Cimbri and their comrades were no more.
الصفحة 139 - ... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas...
الصفحة 146 - According to the legend, the first of the Christian emperors was healed of the leprosy, and purified in the waters of baptism, by St Silvester, the Roman bishop ; and never was physician more gloriously recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St Peter ; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East ; and resigned to the popes the free and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West f . This fiction was productive of the most...
الصفحة 132 - ... special stamp of either calling, uniting Hellenic culture with the fullest national feeling of a Roman, an accomplished speaker and of graceful manners — Publius Scipio won the hearts of soldiers and of women, of his countrymen and of the Spaniards, of his rivals in the senate and of his greater Carthaginian antagonist.
الصفحة 29 - The patriarch appears here as the. head of a small confederacy of chiefs, powerful enough to venture on a long pursuit to the head of the valley of the Jordan, to attack with success a large force, and not only to rescue Lot, but to roll back for a time the stream of northern immigration. His high position is seen in the gratitude of the people, and the dignity with which he refuses the character of a hireling. That it did...
الصفحة 82 - ALRASCHID, a celebrated caliph of the Saracens, ascended the throne in 786, and was the most potent prince of his race, ruling over territories extending from Egypt to Khorassan. He gained many splendid victories over the Greek emperors, and obtained immense renown lor his bravery, magnificence, and love of letters ; but he was cruel and tyrannical. D. 808. HARPER, ROBERT GOODLOK, was a native of Virginia, but when very young removed with his parents to North Carolina.
الصفحة 77 - ... Trade Settlements. — The reign of James I. is signalized by the commencement of that system of colonization which has resulted in the establishment of the English race in almost every quarter of the globe. In the year 1607 Jamestown, so named in honor of the king, was founded in Virginia. This was the first permanent English settlement within the limits of the United States. In 1620 some Separatists, or Pilgrims, who had found in Holland a temporary refuge from persecution, pushed across the...