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Elements of General History: Ancient and Modern, Հատոր 1 Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1831 |
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Էջ 378 - II, the successor of Charles V, the balance of power in Europe was sustained by Spain, France, England, and Germany, all at this time highly flourishing and respectable, either from the talents of their sovereigns, or their internal strength.
Էջ 363 - The members of the first, deemed the most sacred, had it for their province to study the principles of religion ; to perform its functions : and to cultivate the sciences. They were the priests, the instructors, and philosophers of the nation.
Էջ 140 - He bequeathed, as a valuable legacy to his successors, the advice of confining the empire within those limits, which Nature seemed to have placed as its permanent bulwarks and boundaries; on the west the Atlantic ocean; the Rhine and Danube on the north; the Euphrates on the east; and towards the south, the sandy deserts of Arabia and Africa.
Էջ 28 - ... form of government. The laws relating to debtors were mild and equitable, as were those which regulated the treatment of slaves. But the vassalage of women, or their absolute subjection to the control of their nearest relations, approached too near to a state of servitude. The proposer of a law, found on experience impolitic, was liable to punishment ; an enactment apparently rigorous, but probably necessary in a popular government. 9. One most iniquitous and absurd peculiarity...
Էջ 346 - Protestant, and the more zealous from an abhorrence of the character of her predecessor. In her reign the religion of England became stationary. The hierarchy was established in its present form, by archbishops, bishops, priests, and deacons, the king being by law the head of the church. The liturgy had been settled in the reign of Edward VI. The canons are agreeable chiefly to the Lutheran tenets. Of the Reformation in Scotland, we shall afterwards treat under a separate section.
Էջ 111 - The motion passed; and Caesar immediately offered to resign, on condition that his rival should do so; but Pompey rejected the accommodation: the term of his government had yet several years' duration, and he suspected the proposal to be a snare laid for him by Caesar.
Էջ 529 - Judea. 34 Antony divides Armenia among the children of Cleopatra. 33 Mauritania reduced into a Roman province. 32 War declared by the Senate against Antony and Cleopatra. 31 Battle of Actium, and end of the Roman Commonwealth — OCTAVIUS emperor of Rome. 30 Death of Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
Էջ 389 - Vll., educated in France, and married, when very young, to the dauphin, afterwards Francis II., had imprudently assumed the arms and title of queen of England, by the persuasion of her maternal uncles the Guises. The pretence was the illegitimacy of Elizabeth, declared by Henry VIII., on his divorce from Anna Bullen.
Էջ 357 - It is characterized by a softness equal to that of the pencil, and a happy blending of light and shade, and is therefore peculiarly adapted to portrait, where those requisites are most essential. 14. The age of Leo X. was likewise an era of very high literary splendour ; but of the distinguished writers...
Էջ 240 - His reign must be pronounced, on the whole, to have been a weak and inglorious one. He was the first of the French monarchs, who made dignities and titles hereditary. Under the distracted reigns of the Carlovingian kings, the grandees obtained great power, and commanded a formidable vassalage.