Sketches from Venetian History, Volum 1

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Harper & Brothers, 1846 - 11 sider
 

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Side 75 - Thou shalt go upon the lion and the adder ; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet.
Side 232 - ... not only from the investigation of treasonable charges, but of several other crimes of magnitude, they inquired, they judged, they punished, according to what they called reason of state. The public eye never penetrated the mystery of their proceedings ; the accused was sometimes not heard, never confronted with witnesses ; the condemnation was secret as the inquiry, the punishment undivulged like both...
Side 243 - ... (if we may so say) with devils, who seemed hurrying, with fierce and threatening gestures, to sink Venice in the deep. The sea, which had hitherto been furiously agitated, in a moment became unruffled ; and the strangers, crossing themselves, conjured the fiends to depart. At the word, the demoniacal galley vanished, and the three passengers were quietly landed at the spots at which each respectively had been taken up. The boatman, it seems, was not quite easy about his fare, and, before parting,...
Side 72 - this ring, and with it take, on my authority, the sea as your subject. Every year, on the return of this happy day, you and your successors shall make known to all posterity that the right of conquest has subjugated the Adriatic to Venice as a spouse to her husband.
Side 244 - ... believed ; upon which St. Mark pulled from his finger a gold ring, worth about five ducats, saying : — ' Show them this ring, and bid them 'look for it in my Treasury, whence it will be found missing.
Side 314 - By God above, ye signers of Venice, you must expect no peace from the lord of Padua or from our republic till we ourselves have bridled the horses of your St. Mark. Place but the reins once in our hands and we shall- know how to keep them quiet for the future.
Side 109 - This compact having been ratified and sworn to, they re-embarked, and quitted Corfu on the eve of Pentecost. The martial spirit of Villehardouin is kindled afresh upon the renewal of activity. ' The day,' he says, ' was bright and cheerful, and the winds were soft and favourable, as they spread their sails before them. And I, Geoffrey, the Marshal of Champagne, who have dictated this recital, having been present at the matters therein related, and conscious that it contains nothing but truth, bear...
Side 277 - Inn mett togither (as they sometyme did) notwithstandinge his heigh office he would offer in argument 10 the preheminence to his Father, though he for his office sake would refuse to take it.
Side 243 - ... was something about his mysterious crew which either silenced his fears, or diverted them from the tempest to his companions. Scarcely had they gained the strait, when they saw a galley, rather flying than sailing along the Adriatic, manned (if we may so say) with devils, who seemed hurrying with fierce and threatening gestures to sink Venice in the deep. The sea, which had hitherto been furiously agitated, in a moment became unruffled ; and the strangers, crossing themselves, conjured the fiends...
Side 8 - ... (murazzi), against the inroads of the waves. Towards the land, these islands are equally protected; partly by the channels of the great rivers, the Lizonzo, the Tagliamento, and the Livenza, flowing from the Julian Alps; the Piave, the Musone, the Brenta, and the Adige, swollen with the snows of the Tyrol; and the Po, charged with waters both from the Alps and Apennines; and partly by a yet more powerful defence in a bed of soft mud, covered with water not exceeding, for the most part, one or...

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