History of the Revolutions in Europe: From the Subversion of the Roman Empire in the West to the Congress of Vienna

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Hunt & Noyes, 1837

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الصفحة 366 - Kingston moved for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the state of the Protestant church in the province of Munster.
الصفحة 363 - I have come to meet you for the purpose of proroguing this Parliament, with a view to its immediate dissolution. " I have been induced to resort to this measure for the purpose of ascertaining the sense of my people...
الصفحة 107 - Peter and that upon thy rock the son of the living God has built his Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
الصفحة 116 - East was now threatened with a national migration from the West. The bulk of the army was twice as numerous as that of their forerunners. It was headed by the noblest knights of those times — Godefroy of Bouillon, duke of Lower Lorraine ; Baldwin his brother ; Hugo the Great, brother of the king of France ; Robert, duke of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror ; Raymond of St. Gilles, duke of Toulouse ; and Bohemond, prince of Tarentum. The general indulgence proclaimed at Clermont, the feudal...
الصفحة 195 - A compilation from earlier historical works made, in the form in which we have it, at the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century and known by the name of WALTER OF COVENTRY (W.
الصفحة 19 - From what may be called internal evidence, we may reasonably suppose that some of the best castings date back to the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century.
الصفحة 177 - League, so formidable at the time of which we now speak, decline by degrees during the course of the seventeenth century, and in the early part of the eighteenth ; and during the Thirty Years War it became entirely extinct.
الصفحة 116 - ... Europe, excited the general indignation, and gave birth to the romantic notion of expelling these Infidels from the Holy Land. Gregory VII. was the projector of this grand scheme. He addressed circular letters to all the sovereigns of Europe, and invited them to make a general crusade against the Turks. Meantime, however, more pressing interests, and his quarrels with the Emperor Henry IV., obliged him to defer the projected enterprise ; but his attention was soon recalled to it by the representation...
الصفحة 359 - On the first pay. ment, the Russian troops were to retire from Adrianople ; on the second, to repass the Balkan ; and on the third, to repass the Danube ; and on the fourth payment to evacuate the Turkish territory. So far, the Emperor Nicholas fulfilled his declaration and pledges to the Allies, on the commencement of the war — after having gained the objects for which it was undertaken. In this campaign, it has been stated, that the Russians lost 200,000 men and 20,000 horses. It was stated in...
الصفحة 46 - ... their King, Adolphus, they made themselves masters of the city of Barcelona (in 415.) Euric, one of the successors of this prince, took from the Romans (472) all that yet remained of their possessions in Spain ; and Leovigild, another of their kings, completed the conquest of all that country (684,) by reducing the kingdom of the Suevi.

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