The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1Henry G. Bohn, 1855 |
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Side xvi
... Authority of the Popes in Rome From Affection . Right Virtue Benefits Inconstancy of Superstition Seditions of Rome against the Popes 1086-1305 . Successors of Gregory VII . 1099-1118 . Paschal II . 1118 , 1119. Gelasius II . 1144 ...
... Authority of the Popes in Rome From Affection . Right Virtue Benefits Inconstancy of Superstition Seditions of Rome against the Popes 1086-1305 . Successors of Gregory VII . 1099-1118 . Paschal II . 1118 , 1119. Gelasius II . 1144 ...
Side 9
... authority of the doge , the advice of the marshal , and the firm freedom of their peers . * Two fugitives , who had reigned at Constantinople , still asserted the title of emperor ; and the subjects of their fallen throne might be moved ...
... authority of the doge , the advice of the marshal , and the firm freedom of their peers . * Two fugitives , who had reigned at Constantinople , still asserted the title of emperor ; and the subjects of their fallen throne might be moved ...
Side 11
... authorities omitted or mis - stated . The open roadstead of Trebizond is a very insecure harbour ; but its situation , at the eastern extremity of the Euxine , has made it in all commercial times a con- venient medium of European ...
... authorities omitted or mis - stated . The open roadstead of Trebizond is a very insecure harbour ; but its situation , at the eastern extremity of the Euxine , has made it in all commercial times a con- venient medium of European ...
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... authority of different travellers , that none are to be found in Palestine , Persia , or Arabia ; and their common use in the West , at the time mentioned , is a proof of an earlier origin . They were probably invented in the ...
... authority of different travellers , that none are to be found in Palestine , Persia , or Arabia ; and their common use in the West , at the time mentioned , is a proof of an earlier origin . They were probably invented in the ...
Side 39
... authority of the priests operated in the darker ages as a salutary antidote ; they prevented the total extinc- tion of letters , mitigated the fierceness of the times , shel- tered the poor and defenceless , and preserved or revived the ...
... authority of the priests operated in the darker ages as a salutary antidote ; they prevented the total extinc- tion of letters , mitigated the fierceness of the times , shel- tered the poor and defenceless , and preserved or revived the ...
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Side 322 - The number of the Ottomans was fifty, perhaps a hundred, times superior to that of the Christians; the double walls were reduced by the cannon to a heap of ruins: in a circuit of several miles, some places must be found more easy of access, or more feebly guarded; and if the besiegers could penetrate in a single point, the whole city was irrecoverably lost. The first who deserved the sultan's reward was Hassan the Janizary, of gigantic stature and strength. With his...
Side 203 - The precise era of the invention and application of gunpowder is involved in doubtful traditions and equivocal language ; yet we may clearly discern that it was known before the middle of the fourteenth century ; and that before the end of the same, the use of artillery in battles and sieges, by sea and land, was familiar to the states of Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and England.
Side 310 - ... hides ; incessant volleys were securely discharged from the loop-holes ; in the front, three doors were contrived for the alternate sally and retreat of the soldiers and workmen. They ascended, by a staircase, to the upper platform ; and, as high as the level of that platform, a scaling ladder could be raised by pulleys, to form a bridge, and grapple with the adverse rampart.
Side 319 - The preceding night had been strenuously employed : the troops, the cannon, and the fascines, were advanced to the edge of the ditch, which in many parts presented a smooth and level passage to the breach; and his fourscore galleys almost touched with the prows and their scaling ladders, the less defensible walls of the harbour.
Side 471 - Rome, have been elucidated by the diligence of the antiquarian and the student; and the footsteps of heroes, the relics, not of superstition, but of empire, are devoutly visited by a new race of pilgrims from the remote and once savage countries of the North.
Side 82 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Side 310 - A circumstance that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople is the reunion of the ancient and modern artillery. The cannon were intermingled with the mechanical engines for casting stones and darts; the bullet and the battering-ram were directed against the same walls; nor had the discovery of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and unextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced on rollers : this portable magazine of ammunition and fascines was protected by a threefold...
Side 320 - The foremost ranks consisted of the refuse of the host, a voluntary crowd who fought without order or command ; of the feebleness of age or childhood, of peasants and vagrants, and of all who had joined the camp in the blind hope of plunder and martyrdom. The common impulse drove them onwards to the...