A History of the World with All Its Great Sensations: Together with Its Mighty and Decisive Battles and the Rise and Fall of Its Nations from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Volume 1 |
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Page 84
... Charles , who acquired his surname , like that of the war - god of his forefathers ' creed , from the might with which he broke and shattered his enemies in the battle . The Merovingian kings had sunk into absolute insignifi- cance ...
... Charles , who acquired his surname , like that of the war - god of his forefathers ' creed , from the might with which he broke and shattered his enemies in the battle . The Merovingian kings had sunk into absolute insignifi- cance ...
Page 85
... Charles Martel , and his son and grandson , were left at leisure to consolidate and extend their power . The new Christian Roman Empire of the West , which the genius of Charlemagne founded , and throughout which his iron will imposed ...
... Charles Martel , and his son and grandson , were left at leisure to consolidate and extend their power . The new Christian Roman Empire of the West , which the genius of Charlemagne founded , and throughout which his iron will imposed ...
Page 89
... Charles ( the Bald ) , the fruit of a second marriage . Louis , faithlessly deserted by his vassals on " the field of lies " near Strasburg , and betrayed to his own sons , was compelled by Lothaire to do pen- ance in the church , and ...
... Charles ( the Bald ) , the fruit of a second marriage . Louis , faithlessly deserted by his vassals on " the field of lies " near Strasburg , and betrayed to his own sons , was compelled by Lothaire to do pen- ance in the church , and ...
Page 90
... Charles the Bald bribed them with money ; and his successor , Charles the Fat , yielded them a portion of his Flemish dominions . Paris was attacked a second time , but gallantly defended by Count Odo , or Eudes , and the venerable ...
... Charles the Bald bribed them with money ; and his successor , Charles the Fat , yielded them a portion of his Flemish dominions . Paris was attacked a second time , but gallantly defended by Count Odo , or Eudes , and the venerable ...
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... Charles proceeded with cruelty and severity against all his adherents . John of Procida , a Ghibelline , swore bloody ven geance to the tyrant . By his influence , all the French , as already related , were killed by the Sicil- ians ...
... Charles proceeded with cruelty and severity against all his adherents . John of Procida , a Ghibelline , swore bloody ven geance to the tyrant . By his influence , all the French , as already related , were killed by the Sicil- ians ...
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Page 118 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 271 - ... fortunes and their own at the end! of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries in all the courts of western Europe.
Page 291 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 257 - For I assure you I have often kneeled before him in his privy chamber...
Page 258 - Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed therefore that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty.
Page 260 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 444 - The paths of glory lead but to the grave " — must have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
Page 291 - ... midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman...
Page 507 - After various messages, a convention for the surrender of the army was settled, which provided that " The troops under General Burgoyne were to march out of their camp with the honors of war, and the artillery of the intrenchments, to the verge of the river, where the arms and artillery were to be left.
Page 439 - Kensington, in the fiftieth year of her age, and the thirteenth of her reign. Her easy temper and her faultless domestic life gained her the epithet of