The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumen6J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... thousand horse and forty thousand foot , assembled from the most remote climates of Europe . The strength of Durazzo , and prudence of Alexius , the progress of famine , and approach of winter , eluded his ambitious hopes ; and the ...
... thousand horse and forty thousand foot , assembled from the most remote climates of Europe . The strength of Durazzo , and prudence of Alexius , the progress of famine , and approach of winter , eluded his ambitious hopes ; and the ...
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... thousand horse , and one hundred thousand foot . " The armies of the second crusade might have claimed the conquest of Asia : the nobles of France and Germany were animated by the presence of their sove- reigns ; and both the rank and ...
... thousand horse , and one hundred thousand foot . " The armies of the second crusade might have claimed the conquest of Asia : the nobles of France and Germany were animated by the presence of their sove- reigns ; and both the rank and ...
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Edward Gibbon. thousand foot , were mustered by the emperor in the plains of CHAP . Hungary ; and after such repetitions we shall no longer be LIX . startled at the six hundred thousand pilgrims , which credulity has ascribed to this ...
Edward Gibbon. thousand foot , were mustered by the emperor in the plains of CHAP . Hungary ; and after such repetitions we shall no longer be LIX . startled at the six hundred thousand pilgrims , which credulity has ascribed to this ...
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... thousand knights were able to serve on horseback . By a sudden and resolute assault , he defeated the guards , and storm- ed the capital of the sultan , who humbly sued for pardon and 22 The original French histories of the second ...
... thousand knights were able to serve on horseback . By a sudden and resolute assault , he defeated the guards , and storm- ed the capital of the sultan , who humbly sued for pardon and 22 The original French histories of the second ...
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... thousand horses at the siege of Acre , and at the time of his death , no more than forty - seven drachms of silver and one piece of gold coin were found in the treasury ; yet in a martial reign , the tributes were diminished , and the ...
... thousand horses at the siege of Acre , and at the time of his death , no more than forty - seven drachms of silver and one piece of gold coin were found in the treasury ; yet in a martial reign , the tributes were diminished , and the ...
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.