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... less dreadful to his fancy , than those of a Catalan or Turkish war . Under the reign of the Palæologi , the choice of the pa- triarch was the most important business of the state ; the heads of the Greek church were ambitious and ...
... less dreadful to his fancy , than those of a Catalan or Turkish war . Under the reign of the Palæologi , the choice of the pa- triarch was the most important business of the state ; the heads of the Greek church were ambitious and ...
Side 2
... less ardour than Athanasius himself , the restoration of a patriarch , by whom alone he could be healed . At the dead of night , a monk rudely knocked at the door of the royal bed- chamber , announcing a revelation of plague and famine ...
... less ardour than Athanasius himself , the restoration of a patriarch , by whom alone he could be healed . At the dead of night , a monk rudely knocked at the door of the royal bed- chamber , announcing a revelation of plague and famine ...
Side 17
... less barbarous perhaps than the shepherds of Bulgaria and Servia ; but their religion rendered them the implacable foes of Rome and Chris- tianity . To acquire the friendship of their emirs , the two factions vied with each other in ...
... less barbarous perhaps than the shepherds of Bulgaria and Servia ; but their religion rendered them the implacable foes of Rome and Chris- tianity . To acquire the friendship of their emirs , the two factions vied with each other in ...
Side 18
... less bloody and venomous than in his life . Yet his talents alone upheld the cause of the young emperor ; and his surviving associates , suspicious of each other , abandoned the conduct of the war , and rejected the fairest terms of ...
... less bloody and venomous than in his life . Yet his talents alone upheld the cause of the young emperor ; and his surviving associates , suspicious of each other , abandoned the conduct of the war , and rejected the fairest terms of ...
Side 21
... less formidable than the calamities of a civil war , in which the barbarians and infidels were again invited to assist the Greeks in their mutual destruction . By the arms of the Turks , who now struck a deep and everlasting root in ...
... less formidable than the calamities of a civil war , in which the barbarians and infidels were again invited to assist the Greeks in their mutual destruction . By the arms of the Turks , who now struck a deep and everlasting root in ...
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