History of France: From the Earliest Times to MDCCCXLVIIIWilliam Blackwood, 1859 - 639 sider |
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... king himself , but his two sons Charles and Carlaman . A.D. 744 . To be a crowned king in those days , was to have the sanctity of Religion added to the reality of earthly power . After that ennobling ceremony the office of king became ...
... king himself , but his two sons Charles and Carlaman . A.D. 744 . To be a crowned king in those days , was to have the sanctity of Religion added to the reality of earthly power . After that ennobling ceremony the office of king became ...
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... king , and the disunion or preoccupation of the lords . At the very time when William was trampling on England , and Philip dishonouring the name of France , a sallow - faced , contemptible - looking monk of Cluny was elected to the ...
... king , and the disunion or preoccupation of the lords . At the very time when William was trampling on England , and Philip dishonouring the name of France , a sallow - faced , contemptible - looking monk of Cluny was elected to the ...
Side 47
... French king and the Roman bishop , had merely exchanged the antagonist whose op- position they feared . A worse foe took the place of the rebellious lords , for after the First Crusade wealth and intelligence - which are the most fatal ...
... French king and the Roman bishop , had merely exchanged the antagonist whose op- position they feared . A worse foe took the place of the rebellious lords , for after the First Crusade wealth and intelligence - which are the most fatal ...
Side 48
... French king . Powerful as Normandy had been before , its importance was now greatly enlarged by the increased rank of its ruler , and by the knowledge that , in addition to its own forces , the wealth and warriors of Britain were ready ...
... French king . Powerful as Normandy had been before , its importance was now greatly enlarged by the increased rank of its ruler , and by the knowledge that , in addition to its own forces , the wealth and warriors of Britain were ready ...
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... France , their gentle and pious king , and Henry of Normandy -afterwards Henry the Second of England - and the flower of European nobility , had hurried to the East . Along with the splendid host went prin- cesses and queens ; high ...
... France , their gentle and pious king , and Henry of Normandy -afterwards Henry the Second of England - and the flower of European nobility , had hurried to the East . Along with the splendid host went prin- cesses and queens ; high ...
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History of France: From the Earliest Times to MDCCCXLVIII. James White Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1874 |
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Side 451 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Side 22 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes, A man may speak the thing he will; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom...
Side 138 - Friburgh two thousand florins in two days. If he had the office of a mountebank, he possessed the manners also. Convicted at Inspruck of adultery and infamous conduct, his vices had nearly caused his death. The Emperor Maximilian had ordered him to be put into a sack, and thrown into the river. The Elector Frederick of Saxony interfered and obtained his pardon. But the lesson that he had received had not taught him modesty. He led two of his children about with him. Millitz, the pope's legate, mentions...
Side v - This book makes an attempt to furnish a readable account of the country with which we are in closest neighbourhood, and yet of whose history the generality of us know less than of that of almost any other kingdom. It aims at something higher than a mere epitome, for it founds itself on a great deal of various reading, and gives results more than abstracts. At the same time, it devotes sufficient space to any occurrences which seem to have a general bearing on the progress or character of the nation....