A History of the World, on a New and Systematic Plan: From the Earliest Times to the Treaty of Vienna. To which is Added a Summary of Leading Events from that Period to the Year of 1821J. & J. L. Gihon, 1851 - 552 páginas |
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... France 204 Spain 205 Britain .. 188 The Crusades . 189 State of the World at the Epoch 194 195 198 PART THIRD . - MODERN HISTORY . FROM THE ERA. 7th CENTURY A.D. Greek Empire . Persia Arabia . • Italy .. France Spain The Church . • 8th ...
... France 204 Spain 205 Britain .. 188 The Crusades . 189 State of the World at the Epoch 194 195 198 PART THIRD . - MODERN HISTORY . FROM THE ERA. 7th CENTURY A.D. Greek Empire . Persia Arabia . • Italy .. France Spain The Church . • 8th ...
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... France . • 407 Great Britain . 491 Spain and Portugal . Italian Peninsula . 410 • France . 496 411 Spain . 504 • Germany .. 412 Portugal 506 • Holland . 414 Italy .. 507 Denmark . Sweden : 417 416 Germany 508 Holland 509 Poland .. 419 ...
... France . • 407 Great Britain . 491 Spain and Portugal . Italian Peninsula . 410 • France . 496 411 Spain . 504 • Germany .. 412 Portugal 506 • Holland . 414 Italy .. 507 Denmark . Sweden : 417 416 Germany 508 Holland 509 Poland .. 419 ...
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... France , Italy was parcelled out among a number of petty princes ; while in Germany Otho commenced the long - continued struggle against feudalism . 5. The fifth is the romantic or heroic period of the Crusades , 1096-1273 , in which ...
... France , Italy was parcelled out among a number of petty princes ; while in Germany Otho commenced the long - continued struggle against feudalism . 5. The fifth is the romantic or heroic period of the Crusades , 1096-1273 , in which ...
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... France and England , the rise of the Spanish monarchies , the destruction of the imperial authority in Germany , the brief splendour and fall of the ... France Spain Persia Italy Greek Empire Persia Arabia Italy France Spain The Church.
... France and England , the rise of the Spanish monarchies , the destruction of the imperial authority in Germany , the brief splendour and fall of the ... France Spain Persia Italy Greek Empire Persia Arabia Italy France Spain The Church.
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... France , was said to have been brought down from heaven by a snow - white dove . The title of Most Christian Majesty , borne by the French monarchs , was conferred by Pope Anastasius on Clovis , who compelled Gundebald and the Britons ...
... France , was said to have been brought down from heaven by a snow - white dove . The title of Most Christian Majesty , borne by the French monarchs , was conferred by Pope Anastasius on Clovis , who compelled Gundebald and the Britons ...
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Página 19 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Página 121 - ... eloquence —comparable to any in the attainments of wisdom, in an age made up of the greatest commanders, statesmen, orators, and philosophers that ever appeared in the world — an author who composed a perfect specimen of military annals in his travelling carriage — at one time in a controversy with Cato, at another writing a treatise on punning, and collecting a set of good sayings — fighting and making love at the same moment, and willing to abandon both his empire and his mistress for...
Página 154 - ... they would consecrate their services to the defence of the empire. How the declarations of this million of suppliants were kept, the reader will find detailed elsewhere. THE CHURCH. . The Christian religion, although severely persecuted, resembled the herb that flourishes best when most trodden upon. The blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church, and hence converts rapidly spread over the empire, and to the remotest parts of the world.
Página 46 - First, Moloch, horrid King, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Página 128 - It is almost superfluous to enumerate the unworthy successors of Augustus. Their unparalleled vices, and the splendid theatre on which they were acted, have saved them from oblivion. The dark unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the feeble Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius, and the timid inhuman Domitian, are condemned tp everlasting infamy.
Página 67 - God ; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
Página 504 - ... army be decided in a day. He understood war as a science ; but his mind was too bold, rapid, and irrepressible, to be enslaved by the technics of his profession. He found the old armies fighting by rule, and he discovered the true characteristic of genius, which, without despising rules, knows when and how to break them. He understood thoroughly the immense moral power, which is gained...
Página 393 - ... ever heard on the waters of the Mississippi. To conceal his death, his body was wrapped in a mantle, and, in the stillness of midnight, was silently sunk in the middle of the stream. The discoverer of the Mississippi slept beneath its waters. He had crossed a large part of the continent in search of gold, and found nothing so remarkable as his burial-place.
Página 111 - ... parts. Judas also was killed, and the remnant fled. Then Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers in Modin. Moreover they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, saying, How is the valiant man fallen, that delivered Israel!
Página 190 - I have seen," said an astonished ambassador from Mecca, " Chosroes of Persia, and the Caesar of Rome, but never did I behold a king among his subjects like Mohammed among his companions.