The History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Crusaders to Its Conquest by the Turks, and of the Empire of Trebizond: 1204-1461Blackwood, 1851 - 519 páginas |
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... nobles , and soldiers , seized the whole surplus wealth which the hand of nature annually bestows on agricultural labour . The cultivator of the soil was only left in possession of the scanty portion necessary to enable him to prolong ...
... nobles , and soldiers , seized the whole surplus wealth which the hand of nature annually bestows on agricultural labour . The cultivator of the soil was only left in possession of the scanty portion necessary to enable him to prolong ...
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... nobles of Sicily . The Greek deed by which Roger , King of Sicily , confers the title of protonobilissimus on Christodoulos the father of George , is preserved in the archives of the Royal Chapel at Palermo . Montfaucon has engraved it ...
... nobles of Sicily . The Greek deed by which Roger , King of Sicily , confers the title of protonobilissimus on Christodoulos the father of George , is preserved in the archives of the Royal Chapel at Palermo . Montfaucon has engraved it ...
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... in fashion with princes and nobles . He reached Constantinople with a numerous and splendid suite of Norman gentlemen . The emperor , Michael IV . , received him at a public audience ; but either $ 1 . CHAP . III . expeditions by land.
... in fashion with princes and nobles . He reached Constantinople with a numerous and splendid suite of Norman gentlemen . The emperor , Michael IV . , received him at a public audience ; but either $ 1 . CHAP . III . expeditions by land.
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... nobles to the rank of abject slaves in the opinion of the feudal barons ; while the right of every private gentleman to decide questions of police and municipal law by an appeal to his sword , was a monstrous absurdity in the eyes of ...
... nobles to the rank of abject slaves in the opinion of the feudal barons ; while the right of every private gentleman to decide questions of police and municipal law by an appeal to his sword , was a monstrous absurdity in the eyes of ...
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... nobles and grooms , all to sit down together ; observing , that all Greeks were such wonderfully great men , that it was impossible to make any distinction between them.1 The Greeks escaped unconquered from the numerous armies which ...
... nobles and grooms , all to sit down together ; observing , that all Greeks were such wonderfully great men , that it was impossible to make any distinction between them.1 The Greeks escaped unconquered from the numerous armies which ...
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The History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Crusaders to Its Conquest by ... George Finlay Visualização integral - 1851 |
The History of Greece from Its Conquest by the Crusaders to Its Conquest by ... George Finlay Visualização integral - 1851 |
The History of Greece from Its Conquest by the Crusaders to Its Conquest by ... George Finlay Visualização integral - 1851 |
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Página 452 - ... the Ganges to Damascus and the Archipelago, Asia was in the hand of Timour ; his armies were invincible, his ambition was boundless, and his zeal might aspire to conquer and convert the Christian kingdoms of the West, which already trembled at his name. He touched the utmost verge of the land ; but an insuperable though narrow sea rolled between the two continents of Europe and Asia, and the lord of so many tomans, or myriads of horse, was not master of a single galley.
Página 494 - In concluding the history of this Greek state, we inquire in vain for any benefit that it conferred on the human race.