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... death , which happened in 1085. Though the power of the Normans was thus thoroughly established in Italy and Sicily , and though the prince of Benevento was in 1130 invested by the pope with the title of king of Sicily ; yet , in ...
... death , which happened in 1085. Though the power of the Normans was thus thoroughly established in Italy and Sicily , and though the prince of Benevento was in 1130 invested by the pope with the title of king of Sicily ; yet , in ...
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... death of pope Nicholas . The new pope , Martin IV . , was entirely in the interest of Charles , on whom , in 1281 , he conferred the senatorial dignity of Rome . Pro- cida , however , still resolved to prosecute his scheme ; and ...
... death of pope Nicholas . The new pope , Martin IV . , was entirely in the interest of Charles , on whom , in 1281 , he conferred the senatorial dignity of Rome . Pro- cida , however , still resolved to prosecute his scheme ; and ...
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... death in 1309. Naples continued to be governed by its own kings till the beginning of the sixteenth century , when the kings of France and Spain contended for the sovereignty of it . Frederick , then king of Naples , resigned the ...
... death in 1309. Naples continued to be governed by its own kings till the beginning of the sixteenth century , when the kings of France and Spain contended for the sovereignty of it . Frederick , then king of Naples , resigned the ...
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... death , and the duke with great difficulty escaped . Massaniello by this conspiracy was rendered more suspicious He began to abuse his power by putting several persons to death upon slight pre- tences ; and , to force the viceroy to an ...
... death , and the duke with great difficulty escaped . Massaniello by this conspiracy was rendered more suspicious He began to abuse his power by putting several persons to death upon slight pre- tences ; and , to force the viceroy to an ...
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... death of his brother Fer- dinand VI . , on the 10th August 1759 , became king of Spain ; and was succeeded in the throne of Naples by his third son , Ferdinand IV . , the present sovereign . But , in January 1799 , he and the royal ...
... death of his brother Fer- dinand VI . , on the 10th August 1759 , became king of Spain ; and was succeeded in the throne of Naples by his third son , Ferdinand IV . , the present sovereign . But , in January 1799 , he and the royal ...
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Сторінка 668 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Сторінка 453 - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Сторінка 607 - Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore : While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated...
Сторінка 637 - Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.
Сторінка 417 - The people, among whom you are going to live, are Mahometans. The first article of their faith is " There is no other God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet.
Сторінка 646 - The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
Сторінка 700 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Сторінка 646 - To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
Сторінка 641 - The motions of bodies included in a given space are the same among themselves, whether that space is at rest, or moves uniformly forward in a right line without any circular motion.
Сторінка 751 - THERE is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where bishoplike he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather. Look up— your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds— that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.