History, philosophically issustrated, from the fall of the Roman empire to the French revolution, Том 21832 |
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accordingly acquired afterwards aggrandisement ancient appears Arabs Aragon authority became begun cantons cause century character Charlemagne Charles Charles VIII chivalry Christian church cities combination commerce communication confederacy connexion conquest considerable Constantinople constitution crown crusades death Denmark dominion duke duke of Burgundy dynasty ecclesiastical Edward Edward III effected emperor empire engaged England English enterprise established Europe excited expeditions favourable formed France French Genoa German Greece Greek Helvetic Henry Henry VII Hist historian hostility Ibid important improvement influence Italian Italy king king of France kingdom language Latin Latin empire latter league Lewis Lond maintained ment modern monarchy Naples nations nobles papacy parliament period Persia Petrarca Philip poetry poets Poland political pontiff possessed pretension prince principles provinces received reduced reign religion remarked Roman Rome Russia Sicily sovereign Spain spirit struggle succession Sweden Tatars territory throne tion trade Turks Venetians Venice western Wicliffe
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Страница 16 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Страница 469 - It is to the discovery of the passage to India, by the cape of Good Hope, and...
Страница 348 - Certainly his times for good commonwealth's laws did excel. So as he may justly be celebrated for the best lawgiver to this nation, after King Edward the First ; for his laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar ; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence of the future, to make the estate of his people still more and more happy ; after the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroical times.
Страница 58 - The estates of the barons were dissipated, and their race was often extinguished, in these costly and perilous expeditions. Their poverty extorted from their pride those charters of freedom which unlocked the fetters of the slave, secured the farm of the peasant and the shop of the artificer, and gradually restored a substance and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community.
Страница 115 - In primis hoc volunt persuadere, non interire animas, sed ab aliis post mortem transire ad alios, atque hoc maxime ad virtutem excitari putant, metu mortis neglecto.
Страница 58 - ... their practice by new superstitions; and the establishment of the inquisition, the mendicant orders of monks and friars, the last abuse of indulgences, and the final progress of idolatry, flowed from the baleful fountain of the holy war. The active spirit of the Latins preyed on the vitals of their reason and religion ; and if the ninth and tenth centuries were the times of darkness, the thirteenth and fourteenth were the age of absurdity and fable.
Страница 100 - Immediately previous to the discovery of the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope, we find that the price of pepper in the markets of Europe had fallen to 6s.
Страница 134 - Hymnorum,' a MS. belonging to Trinity College, Dublin, and written, as Dr Stokes conjectures, about the end of the eleventh or the beginning of the twelfth century. The hymn itself, however, belongs to a much earlier date.
Страница 236 - Catharine of Aragon, Queen of England, the first wife of Henry VIII. , and fourth daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, king and queen of Castile and Aragon, was born December 1485.
Страница 298 - ... the illegality of raising money without consent ; the necessity that the two houses should concur for any alterations in the law ; and, lastly, the right of the commons to inquire into public abuses, and to impeach public counsellors.