The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6J. & J. Harper, 1826 - Byzantine Empire |
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... enemies exulted , his friends blushed , and his apology was slow and un- satisfactory . He justifies his obedience to the commands of the pope ; expatiates on the mysterious ways of providence ; imputes the misfortunes of the pilgrims ...
... enemies exulted , his friends blushed , and his apology was slow and un- satisfactory . He justifies his obedience to the commands of the pope ; expatiates on the mysterious ways of providence ; imputes the misfortunes of the pilgrims ...
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... justitiæ experimentis abundaret . The true praise of kings is after their death , and from the mouth of their enemies , the holy warrior revived the zeal and simplicity of the 20 THE DECLINE AND FALL 1127-1145 Zenghi 1145-1174 Noureddin.
... justitiæ experimentis abundaret . The true praise of kings is after their death , and from the mouth of their enemies , the holy warrior revived the zeal and simplicity of the 20 THE DECLINE AND FALL 1127-1145 Zenghi 1145-1174 Noureddin.
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... enemies of the sect and 41 From the ambassador , William of Tyre ( 1. xix . c . 17 , 18 , ) describes the pa- lace of Cairo . In the caliph's treasures were found a pearl as large as a pigeon's egg , a ruby weighing seventeen Egyptian ...
... enemies of the sect and 41 From the ambassador , William of Tyre ( 1. xix . c . 17 , 18 , ) describes the pa- lace of Cairo . In the caliph's treasures were found a pearl as large as a pigeon's egg , a ruby weighing seventeen Egyptian ...
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... enemy , and their general closed the rear , with a vigilant eye , and the battle - axe in his hand , a Frank presumed to ask him if he were not afraid of an attack ? " It is doubt- less in your power to begin the attack , " replied the ...
... enemy , and their general closed the rear , with a vigilant eye , and the battle - axe in his hand , a Frank presumed to ask him if he were not afraid of an attack ? " It is doubt- less in your power to begin the attack , " replied the ...
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... enemies of the Koran . After Jerusalem had been delivered from the presence of the stran- gers , the sultan made his triumphant entry , his banners waving in the wind and to the harmony of martial music . The great mosque of Omar ...
... enemies of the Koran . After Jerusalem had been delivered from the presence of the stran- gers , the sultan made his triumphant entry , his banners waving in the wind and to the harmony of martial music . The great mosque of Omar ...
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Page 559 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea...
Page 543 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 498 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Page 497 - A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men.
Page 565 - ... and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.
Page 549 - The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise ; many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull Chronicle and a Rhetorical declamation ; three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect.
Page 550 - By such men every operation of peace and war, every principle of justice or policy, every question of authority and freedom, was attacked and defended ; and the subject of the momentous contest was the union or separation of Great Britain and America. The eight sessions that I sat in parliament were a school of civil prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian.
Page 523 - I need not blush at recollecting the object of my choice ; and though my love was disappointed of success, I am rather proud that I was once capable of feeling such a pure and exalted sentiment.
Page 509 - Scholars : in a Society where emulation without envy, ambition without jealousy, contention without animosity, incited industry, and awakened genius ; where a liberal pursuit of knowledge, and a generous freedom of thought, was raised, encouraged, and pushed forward, by example, by commendation, and by authority.
Page 313 - Mahomet has been separately noticed; an important and visible object in the history of the times: but that enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude: the long order of the Turkish artillery was pointed against the walls; fourteen batteries thundered at once on the most accessible places; and of one of these it is ambiguously expressed that it was mounted with one hundred and thirty guns, or that it discharged one hundred and thirty bullets.