Sketches from Venetian History, Volum 1Harper, 1837 |
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Side 65 - Thou shalt tread upon the lion and the adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
Side 200 - ... he came he would go into the same court, and there reverently kneeling down in the sight of them all duly ask his father's blessing. And if it fortuned that his father and he at readings in Lincoln's Inn met together (as they sometime did) notwithstanding his high office he would offer in argument the preeminence to his father, though he for his office sake would refuse to take it.
Side 178 - The ring was discovered to be absent from its usual custody, and the fortunate boatman not only received his fare, but an annual pension to boot. Moreover, a solemn procession and thanksgiving were appointed in gratitude to the three holy corpses, which had rescued from such calamity the land affording them burial.* It was under the dogeship of Gradenigo that our own Edward III.
Side 177 - In the year 1341 an inundation of many days' continuance had raised the water three cubits higher than it had ever before been seen in Venice, and during a stormy night, while the flood appeared to be still increasing, a poor old fisherman sought what refuge he could find by mooring his crazy bark close to the Rica di San Marco.
Side 170 - Excluding the old council of forty, a regular court of criminal judicature, 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 63 - 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 18 - Aiiige, 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 two feet in depth, and extending, at the time of which we are now writing, between twenty and thirty miles from the outer shore.
Side 226 - 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 171 - ... inseparable part of the whole, it might be saved by a mistaken, but little blameable, reverence for antiquity ; by that fond clinging to established institutions which, perhaps not unwisely, is backward to remove even an abuse, lest its extirpation may endanger the entire fabric upon which it is ingrafted. We are here seeking a cause, not justifying a fact. Existence itself may be purchased at far too dear a price : but if existence alone were all that is demanded for the honour of a state and...
Side 198 - ... offered his library as a legacy. In 1362, while the plague was raging at Padua, he had fixed his abode at Venice, which was free from infection ; his books accompanied him, and, for their conveyance, he was obliged to retain a numerous and extensive stud of baggage horses.