A History of France: B.C. 58-A.D. 1453Clarendon Press, 1881 |
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Trang 246 - God save the mark ! — And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Trang 241 - There are, if I may so say, three powerful spirits which have from time to time moved over the face of the waters, and given a predominant impulse to the moral sentiments and energies of mankind. These are the spirits of liberty, of religion, and of honour. It was the principal business of chivalry to animate and cherish the last of these three.
Trang 131 - Alexander, he seemed born for universal innovation : in a life restlessly active, we see him reforming the coinage, and establishing the legal divisions of money ; gathering about him the learned of every country ; founding schools, and collecting libraries ; interfering, but with the tone of a king, in religious controversies; aiming, though prematurely, at the formation of a naval force ; attempting, for the sake of commerce, the magnificent enterprize of uniting the Rhine and Danube (2) ; and...
Trang 521 - God as it seemeth, a great strook upon your peuple that was assembled there in grete nombre, caused in grete partie, as y trowe, of lakke of sadde beleve, and of unlevefulle doubte, that thei hadde of a disciple and lyme of the Feende, called the Pucelle, that used fals enchantments and sorcerie.
Trang 128 - This King, who showed himself so great in extending his empire and subduing foreign nations, and was constantly occupied with plans to that end, undertook also very many works calculated to adorn and benefit his kingdom, and brought several of them to completion. Among these, the most deserving...
Trang 184 - France was to be made numbered "about a million of souls, living on and taking their names from about seventy thousand separate fiefs or properties : of these fiefs about three thousand carried titles witli them. Of these again, no less than a hundred, — some reckon as many as a hundred and fifty, — were sovereign states, greater or smaller, whose lords could coin money, levy taxes, make laws, administer their own justice.
Trang 114 - He would invite not only his sons to bathe with him, but his nobles and friends, nay, even his satellites and 1 Eginhard was Charles's friend and secretary. 2 Eginhard (Vita Karoli M. c. 22) says he was 'seven times as tall as his own foot...
Trang 115 - FrankishGerman, tall, with beautiful bright hair and fresh colouring. German was his native tongue, German the language of his household. But he spoke Latin, and understood Greek. He wore the Frankish dress : that is, a linen shirt and drawers next his skin ; above these, a tunic with a silken hem, and breeches of the same stuff as the tunic ; then he wrapped his knees and legs down to the ankles with strips of linen ; in winter he had a loose overcoat of fur, ermine or otter, short but warm ; and...
Trang 115 - Charlemagne: ... he wore the dress of his country, that is, the Frankish dress - a linen shirt and drawers next his skin; above these a tunic with a silken hem, and breeches of the same; then he wrapped his knees and legs down to the ankles with strips of linen; he wore boots on his feet; his shoulders and breast he guarded in winter with an overcoat of fur (of ermine or otter); over that a Frankish cloak, and, slung across him by a gold or silver belt, a scabbarded sword . . . Foreign dress, how...
Trang 385 - VALOIS, was the younger brother of Philip the Fair, and therefore uncle of the three sovereigns lately dead. His eldest son Philip had been appointed guardian to the Queen of Charles IV.; and when it appeared that she had given birth to a daughter, and not a son, the barons, joining with the notables of Paris and the good towns, met to decide who was by right the heir to the throne, " for the twelve peers of France said and say that the Crown of France is of such noble estate that by no succession...