The History of the Western Empire: From Its Restoration by Charlemagne to the Accession of Charles V.W.H. Allen & Company, 1841 |
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Page 222 - Ahi, Costantin, di quanto mal fu matre, non la tua conversion, ma quella dote che da te prese il primo ricco patre!
Page 287 - Innocent may boast of the two most signal triumphs over sense and humanity, the establishment of transubstantiation, and the origin of the inquisition.
Page 37 - Long life and victory to Charles, the most pious Augustus, crowned by God the great and pacific emperor of the Romans!
Page 335 - Or le bagna la pioggia , e muove '1 vento Di fuor del regno, quasi lungo '1 verde, Ove le trasmutò a lume spento.
Page 320 - Frederic advanced in age and authority, he repented of the rash engagements of his youth ; his liberal sense and knowledge taught him to despise the phantoms of superstition and the crowns of Asia ; he no longer entertained the same reverence for the successors of Innocent ; and his ambition was occupied by the restoration of the Italian monarchy from Sicily to the Alps. But the...
Page 386 - ... who entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog.
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Page 521 - En el fiero ademán, en los lozanos marciales aderezos y vistosos, bien os conozco, amigos, por romanos; romanos, digo, fuertes y animosos; mas en las blancas delicadas manos y en las teces de rostros tan lustrosos, allá en Bretaña parecéis criados, y de padres flamencos engendrados. El general descuido vuestro, amigos, el no mirar por lo que tanto os toca, levanta los caídos enemigos, que vuestro esfuerzo y opinión apoca.
Page 263 - Parma, Piacenza; on the other, Pavia, Genoa, Alba, Cremona, Como, Tortona, Asti, Cesarea. Venice, who had not yet entered the Italian community, is conspicuous by her absence. According to the terms of this treaty, the communes were confirmed in their right of self-government by consuls, and...
Page 15 - Caesars, the triumphs of the consuls had been annihilated: in the decline and fall of the empire, the god Terminus, the sacred boundary, had insensibly receded from the ocean, the Rhine, the Danube, and the Euphrates; and Rome was reduced to her ancient territory from Viterbo to Terracina, and from Narni to the mouth of the Tyber.