The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Том 6Macmillan, 1914 |
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... Ducange ; the latter , for the pure and original text of Joinville . We must have recourse to the text to discover that the feu Gregeois was shot with a pile or javelin , from an engine that acted like a sling . 25 The vanity , or envy ...
... Ducange ; the latter , for the pure and original text of Joinville . We must have recourse to the text to discover that the feu Gregeois was shot with a pile or javelin , from an engine that acted like a sling . 25 The vanity , or envy ...
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... Ducange , in his Greek and Latin Glossaries , produces many passages ex- pressive of the same idea . [ In connexion with the following account of the work of Constantine , the reader might have been reminded that the Continuation of ...
... Ducange , in his Greek and Latin Glossaries , produces many passages ex- pressive of the same idea . [ In connexion with the following account of the work of Constantine , the reader might have been reminded that the Continuation of ...
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... ( Ducange , Gloss . Græc . tom . i . p . 487 , 488 ) . Some etymologies are attempted for the Opsician , Optimatian , Thracesian , themes . [ For the history of the Themes , and Constantine's treatise , see Appendix 3. ] phorus , John ...
... ( Ducange , Gloss . Græc . tom . i . p . 487 , 488 ) . Some etymologies are attempted for the Opsician , Optimatian , Thracesian , themes . [ For the history of the Themes , and Constantine's treatise , see Appendix 3. ] phorus , John ...
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... τῶν πολλῶν ἀμαθίᾳ , καλὸν γὰρ ἐπὶ τούτοις κοινολεκτεῖν . Ducange labours on some ; but he was not a weaver . trans- ported from Greece to Italy colours , he celebrates CHAP . LIII ] OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 75 Manufactures-especially of Silk.
... τῶν πολλῶν ἀμαθίᾳ , καλὸν γὰρ ἐπὶ τούτοις κοινολεκτεῖν . Ducange labours on some ; but he was not a weaver . trans- ported from Greece to Italy colours , he celebrates CHAP . LIII ] OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 75 Manufactures-especially of Silk.
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... Ducange , the Tillemont of the middle ages . Never has laborious Germany produced two antiquarians more laborious and accurate than these two natives of lively France . [ For recent works on the reconstruction of the Imperial Palace ...
... Ducange , the Tillemont of the middle ages . Never has laborious Germany produced two antiquarians more laborious and accurate than these two natives of lively France . [ For recent works on the reconstruction of the Imperial Palace ...
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Сторінка 27 - and honours, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to FOURTEEN
Сторінка 12 - like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of an hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination. The use of the Greek or, as it might now be called, of the Saracen fire was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century,
Сторінка 11 - which were planted on the prow of a galley, and fancifully shaped into the mouths of savage monsters, that seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire. This important art was preserved at Constantinople, as the palladium of the state; the galleys and artillery might occasionally be lent to the allies of
Сторінка 450 - and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil. DIGRESSION ON THE FAMILY
Сторінка 355 - the grandson of Barbarossa, was successively the pupil, the enemy, and the victim of the church. At the age of twenty-one years, and in obedience to his guardian Innocent the Third, he assumed the cross; the same promise was repeated at his royal and imperial coronations; and his marriage with the heiress of Jerusalem
Сторінка 160 - ships of war, each of which, with its naval science and thundering artillery, could have sunk or scattered an hundred canoes, such as those of their ancestors. Perhaps the present generation may yet behold the accomplishment of the prediction, of a rare prediction, of which the style is unambiguous and the date unquestionable.
Сторінка 25 - of dinars of gold. A pious and charitable motive may sanctify the foundation of cisterns and caravanseras, which he distributed along a measured road of seven hundred miles; but his train of camels, laden with snow, could serve only to astonish the natives of Arabia, and to refresh the fruits and liquors of the royal banquet.
Сторінка 189 - His boundless ambition was founded on the consciousness of superior worth; in the pursuit of greatness, he was never arrested by the scruples of justice and seldom moved by the feelings of humanity; though not insensible of fame, the choice of open or clandestine means was determined only by his present advantage. The surname of Guiscard
Сторінка 26 - of the gardens, one of these basons and fountains, so delightful in a sultry climate, was replenished not with water, but with the purest quicksilver. The seraglio of Abdalrahman, his wives, concubines, and black eunuchs, amounted to six thousand three hundred persons; and he was
Сторінка 519 - the next day the insult was repeated, and they exulted in a second proof that the royal city was not beyond the reach of their artillery. Cantacuzene instantly signed his treaty with the Venetians; but the weight of the Roman empire was scarcely felt in the balance of these opulent and powerful republics.*