The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumen6J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... Victory of Cantacuzene .. 1347 He re - enters Constantinople .... 158 1347-1355 . Reign of John Cantacu- zene . 159 1353 John Palæologus takes up Arms against him .. 160 1355 Abdication of Cantacuzene .... 161 1341-1351 . Dispute ...
... Victory of Cantacuzene .. 1347 He re - enters Constantinople .... 158 1347-1355 . Reign of John Cantacu- zene . 159 1353 John Palæologus takes up Arms against him .. 160 1355 Abdication of Cantacuzene .... 161 1341-1351 . Dispute ...
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... Victory of four Ships 314 Mahomet transports his Navy over Land 317 Distress of the City .. 318 Preparations of the Turks for ib . 320 PACE 324 ........ 325 stantinople ..... Captivity of the Greeks .... Amount of the Spoil .. Mabomet ...
... Victory of four Ships 314 Mahomet transports his Navy over Land 317 Distress of the City .. 318 Preparations of the Turks for ib . 320 PACE 324 ........ 325 stantinople ..... Captivity of the Greeks .... Amount of the Spoil .. Mabomet ...
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... victory , was the pledge and title of their just independence . It does not appear that the emperor attempted to revive his obsolete claims over the kingdom of Jerusalem ; but the borders of Cilicia and Syria were more recent in his ...
... victory , was the pledge and title of their just independence . It does not appear that the emperor attempted to revive his obsolete claims over the kingdom of Jerusalem ; but the borders of Cilicia and Syria were more recent in his ...
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... victory would have been almost equally dis- graceful to his character.33 Yet , after the calamitous event , the abbot of Clairvaux was loudly accused as a false prophet , the author of the public and private mourning ; his enemies ...
... victory would have been almost equally dis- graceful to his character.33 Yet , after the calamitous event , the abbot of Clairvaux was loudly accused as a false prophet , the author of the public and private mourning ; his enemies ...
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... victory was stained by the execution of two hundred and thirty knights of the hospital , the intrepid champions and martyrs of their faith . The kingdom was left without a head ; and of the two grand masters of the military orders , the ...
... victory was stained by the execution of two hundred and thirty knights of the hospital , the intrepid champions and martyrs of their faith . The kingdom was left without a head ; and of the two grand masters of the military orders , the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abulfeda Adrianople Alexius ambassadors ambition Amurath Anatolia ancient Andronicus Annals arms army Asia Avignon Bajazet bishop brother Byzantine caliph Cantacuzene Cantemir Capitol captive cardinals century Cesar Chalcocondyles CHAP character Christian church clergy Colonna command conqueror conquest Constantine Constantinople court crown crusade death defence Ducange Ducas ecclesiastical emperor empire enemies Europe father France French galleys Genoese Greek Hellespont Hist historian holy honour horse hostile hundred Italian Italy Janizaries John Khan king kingdom labour Latins LXVI Mahomet Manuel Matthew Paris merit Moguls monarch monks Muratori nations Nicephorus Gregoras nobles obedience Ottoman Pachymer palace Palæologus patriarch peace Persia Petrarch Phranza pontiff pope prince Propontis reign religion republic restored Rienzi Roman Romania Rome royal ruin Saladin Saracens senate Sherefeddin siege soldiers sovereign Spondanus successor sultan sword Tartars thousand throne Timour tion treaty troops Turkish Turks valour Vatican Venetians Venice victory youth zeal Zingis
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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.