Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801, 第 7 巻Isaac Collins and sons, 1804 |
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134 ページ - Death is the condition of our birth ; but they who have reigned should never survive the loss of dignity and dominion. I implore Heaven that I may never be seen, not a day, without my diadem and purple ; that I may no longer behold the light, when I cease to be saluted with the name of queen. If you resolve, O...
281 ページ - Constantino, till they were nearly annihilated. Seeing his dearest friends fall by his side, and himself at last remaining, surrounded only by enemies, he exclaimed in the bitterness of grief, " Has death then made such havoc, that not one Christian is left to take my life?" As he spoke, a Turk to whom his person was unknown, for he had prudently laid aside the purple, struck him in the face ; a second blow succeeded from another hand ; and he fell, in the forty-ninth year of his age, a glorious...
218 ページ - and let this memorable word, the inspiration surely of the Holy Spirit, be for ever adopted as your cry of battle, to animate the devotion and courage of the champions of Christ. His cross is the symbol of your salvation; wear it, a red, a bloody cross, as an external mark, on your breasts or shoulders, as a pledge of...
259 ページ - and will boldly enter the lists with my accusers; but a layman, a sinner like myself, is not endowed with the gift of miracles. Your piety, most holy prelate, may deserve the interposition of Heaven, and from your hands I will receive the fiery globe, the pledge of my innocence.
313 ページ - ... from the Tuscan Sea to the Adriatic. At this period we have to mark the progress of Rome in a contest with a rival republic of first-rate power and immense resources. Carthage, originally a Tyrian colony, had acquired extensive dominions in Africa, conquered a considerable portion of Spain, occupied Sardinia, Corsica, and all the islands on the coast of Italy, and, in addition to all these, ' had subdued a great part of Sicily. With possessions so numerous, this mighty republic was unequalled...
277 ページ - Since neither oaths, nor treaty, nor submission, can secure peace, pursue," said he to Mahomet, "your impious warfare. My trust is in God alone; if it should please him to mollify your heart, I shall rejoice in the happy change ; if he delivers the city into your hands I submit without a murmur to his holy will. But until the Judge of the earth shall pronounce between us, it is my duty to live and die in the defence of my people.
101 ページ - It is not proper," said he, insolently shaking the purple, " that the man who is invested with this garment, should be guilty of a falsehood." " Nor is it proper,'* retorted Leo, " that a prince should be compelled to resign his own judgment and the public interest, to the pleasure of a subject.
181 ページ - In the name of the most merciful God, Harun al Rashid, commander of the faithful, to Nicephorus, the Roman dog. I have read thy letter, O thou son of an unbelieving mother. Thou shalt not hear, thou shalt behold my reply.
235 ページ - Andronicus was hung by the feet between two pillars that supported the statues of a wolf and a sow; and every hand that could reach the public enemy inflicted on his body some mark of ingenious or brutal cruelty, till two friendly or furious Italians, plunging their swords into his body, released him from all human punishment. In this long and painful agony, "Lord have mercy upon me!
201 ページ - Yet the subjects of the Byzantine empire were still the most dexterous and diligent of nations ; their country was blessed by nature with every advantage of soil, climate, and situation ; and, in the support and restoration of the arts, their patient and peaceful temper was more useful than the warlike spirit and feudal anarchy of Europe. The provinces that still adhered to the empire were repeopled and enriched by the misfortunes of those which were irrecoverably lost.