History of France: From the Earliest Times to MDCCCXLVIIIWilliam Blackwood, 1859 - 639 sider |
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... fleet of vessels manoeuvring off a harbour on the Mediter- ranean . A common enough sight , you will say , for the Medi- terranean at that time was the highway for all the traffic in the world ; but Charlemagne burst into tears ...
... fleet of vessels manoeuvring off a harbour on the Mediter- ranean . A common enough sight , you will say , for the Medi- terranean at that time was the highway for all the traffic in the world ; but Charlemagne burst into tears ...
Side 69
... fleet near Dover . No fresh adherents came to his stand- ard , and he resolved to retire . Not like a defeated enemy , nor like a lawless freebooter , did the noble Louis conduct his retreat . He made terms for his supporters ; they ...
... fleet near Dover . No fresh adherents came to his stand- ard , and he resolved to retire . Not like a defeated enemy , nor like a lawless freebooter , did the noble Louis conduct his retreat . He made terms for his supporters ; they ...
Side 72
... fleets from the Seine , and the Loire , and the Narbonnaise . It was now time to provide the youthful monarch with a wife , and his mother cast her eye on one of the four daugh- ters of Raymond Berenger , Count of Provence . The eldest ...
... fleets from the Seine , and the Loire , and the Narbonnaise . It was now time to provide the youthful monarch with a wife , and his mother cast her eye on one of the four daugh- ters of Raymond Berenger , Count of Provence . The eldest ...
Side 83
... fleet , and when the melancholy cortege at last reached the main- land , the population of France was awestruck at the great- ness of their loss . They received in the same mournful silence the living king and the corpses of his father ...
... fleet , and when the melancholy cortege at last reached the main- land , the population of France was awestruck at the great- ness of their loss . They received in the same mournful silence the living king and the corpses of his father ...
Side 84
... fleet sailing into their bay , bringing help and safety , under the command of Peter the King of Aragon , who had married the daughter of Manfred . Pope , and kings , and princes , ranged them- selves on different sides . Martin the ...
... fleet sailing into their bay , bringing help and safety , under the command of Peter the King of Aragon , who had married the daughter of Manfred . Pope , and kings , and princes , ranged them- selves on different sides . Martin the ...
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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....