A History of Spain from the Earliest Times to the Death of Ferdinand the Catholic, Band 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1895 - 360 Seiten |
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... political power of the Christian Church , the rise and fall of Mohammedanism in Western Europe , the discovery and colonization of America ; these are five of the most interesting and most important of the phases of human progress ...
... political power of the Christian Church , the rise and fall of Mohammedanism in Western Europe , the discovery and colonization of America ; these are five of the most interesting and most important of the phases of human progress ...
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... political phenomenon , is as yet but very imperfectly understood . The East has been contented to accept , and the West has not cared to study it . The history of Islam has yet to be written . To ascertain and set down the true story of ...
... political phenomenon , is as yet but very imperfectly understood . The East has been contented to accept , and the West has not cared to study it . The history of Islam has yet to be written . To ascertain and set down the true story of ...
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... political convention in ancient Europe and the origin of the Spanish people . " And however imperfectly the high contracting parties may have carried out the pro- visions of the treaty , their alliance and friendly intercourse gave ...
... political convention in ancient Europe and the origin of the Spanish people . " And however imperfectly the high contracting parties may have carried out the pro- visions of the treaty , their alliance and friendly intercourse gave ...
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... politics , ' and Rome sent no help . Good advice indeed was offered to the besieged . Threats were conveyed to the besieger . But Hannibal was undismayed . The Saguntines would hear of no surrender ; and after nine months ' agony , came ...
... politics , ' and Rome sent no help . Good advice indeed was offered to the besieged . Threats were conveyed to the besieger . But Hannibal was undismayed . The Saguntines would hear of no surrender ; and after nine months ' agony , came ...
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... politics of the day , the student of early Spanish history need seek to know little or nothing . Suffice it here to say that by the year 205 the Roman Senate , rejoicing over Scipio's successes , already regarded Spain as a conquered ...
... politics of the day , the student of early Spanish history need seek to know little or nothing . Suffice it here to say that by the year 205 the Roman Senate , rejoicing over Scipio's successes , already regarded Spain as a conquered ...
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Abdur Rahman Alfonso Alfonso VI Almanzor Almoravides Amir Andalusia Arab Aragon army Asturias authority Averroes Barcelona Basque battle Berbers Bishop brother Burgos Cæsar Calatrava Caliph Castile Castilian Catalonia celebrated Celtiberians century chapter Christian Church Cordova Cortes Council Court crown death defeated dominions Dozy ecclesiastical Egica Emperor Empire Erwig España Europe faith father favour Ferdinand Gallicia Gayangos Goth Gothic Granada Hakam hands Hist honour hundred Imperial Isidore Islam Jews John king King of Aragon king's kingdom knights Lafuente Latin laws Leon Leovgild less marriage Masdeu master mediæval modern Moors Moslem Navarre neighbours noble once Order Ordoño palace Papal peace Peninsula Peter Pope Prince province Pyrenees Ramiro Ramon Berenguer Reccared reign religious Roderic Roman Rome royal rule Sancho Santiago Saragossa Seville Sisenand sovereign Spain Spaniards Spanish succeeded successful throne Toledo town treaty Valencia victory Visigothic Wamba
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 31 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Seite 38 - We authorize the followers of this doctrine to assume the title of Catholic Christians; and as we judge, that all others are extravagant madmen, we brand them with the infamous name of Heretics; and declare that their conventicles shall no longer usurp the respectable appellation of churches. Besides the condemnation of divine justice, they must expect to suffer the severe penalties, which our authority, guided by heavenly wisdom, shall think proper to inflict upon them.
Seite 380 - Moors, and see Abulfeda, ed. Paris, 1848, II. 236. Andres Bernaldez, who flourished towards the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, and who wrote a chronicle of Ferdinand and Isabella, long inedited (MS. Bib. Eg. in Brit. Mus., No. 306, fol. 784), but printed at Granada, 1850, and again at Madrid, 1870, says, " Y el adelantado de Vandalucia con gran caballeria salio a recibir a los Reyes a la pena de los enamorados.
Seite 38 - According to the discipline of the apostles, and the doctrine of the gospel, let us believe the sole deity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; under an equal majesty, and a pious Trinity.
Seite 193 - The determination of the densities of bodies as given by Alhazen approach very closely to our own.
Seite 264 - From the Hindus the Arabs learned arithmetic, especially that valuable invention termed by us the Arabic numerals, but honourably ascribed by them to its proper source, under the designation of "Indian numerals.
Seite 38 - It is our pleasure (such is the Imperial style) that all the nations, which are governed by our clemency and moderation, should steadfastly adhere to the religion which was taught by St. Peter to the Romans; which faithful tradition has preserved; and which is now professed by the pontiff Damasus, and by Peter, bishop of Alexandria, a man of apostolic holiness.
Seite 155 - Europe in the tenth century was Cordova. Its markets were always stocked with the richest and most varied products of every country. No robe, however costly, says a contemporary writer, no drug, however scarce, no jewel, however precious, no rarity of distant and unknown lands, was wanting in its splendid bazaars. Even before his arrival, the visitor had some foretaste of the luxury that awaited him, for on all the principal roads leading to the city, the Caliph established Manzils or Rest-houses...
Seite 222 - Berenguela was one of those rare beings who seems to have been born to do right and to have done it. From her earliest youth she was a leading figure, a happy and noble influence in one of the most contemptible and detestable societies of mediaeval Christendom. Married of her own free will to a stranger and an enemy, that she might bring peace to two kingdoms, she was ever a true and loyal wife; unwedded by ecclesiastical tyranny in the very flower of her young womanhood, she was ever a faithful...
Seite 181 - His legendary presentment is a kind of poetic protest against arbitrary regal power. the Peninsula, so that he overran the plains like a conqueror, and planted his banner in the fairest cities. His power grew very great, nor was there any district that he did not ravage. Nevertheless this man, the scourge of his time, was in«his love of glory, strength of character, and heroic courage, one of the marvels of the Lord.