A History of Spain from the Earliest Times to the Death of Ferdinand the Catholic, Band 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1900 - 799 Seiten |
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... Rome than does the Castilian , yet little of the Latin is in their race . The somewhat dreamy poetic Celt , with his vivid imagination and love of home and family , is in the Gallego tempered by a large admixture of a strong Germanic ...
... Rome than does the Castilian , yet little of the Latin is in their race . The somewhat dreamy poetic Celt , with his vivid imagination and love of home and family , is in the Gallego tempered by a large admixture of a strong Germanic ...
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... Rome and the world ; and to them it was of vital im- portance that Iberia should be solid at their backs . Warriors , they could , and did , draw in plenty from the peoples whom their arms had subdued ; for so long as their organisation ...
... Rome and the world ; and to them it was of vital im- portance that Iberia should be solid at their backs . Warriors , they could , and did , draw in plenty from the peoples whom their arms had subdued ; for so long as their organisation ...
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... Rome were not only for ever face to face in their own land with the might of the metropolis , but were carried to the uttermost ends of the Empire to fight its battles abroad . From Rome , from Britain , from Gaul , from the Danube ...
... Rome were not only for ever face to face in their own land with the might of the metropolis , but were carried to the uttermost ends of the Empire to fight its battles abroad . From Rome , from Britain , from Gaul , from the Danube ...
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... Rome had eaten into the very heart of her great dependency . The degenerate Spaniards had become such good Roman citizens as to be unable or unwilling to protect their own homes , for country , in the broad sense of the word , they had ...
... Rome had eaten into the very heart of her great dependency . The degenerate Spaniards had become such good Roman citizens as to be unable or unwilling to protect their own homes , for country , in the broad sense of the word , they had ...
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... Rome , iii . , 396 ; and John Ormsby , in Cornhill Magazine , 1870 , p . 425. The words of Niebuhr to which I refer are as follows : " As one part of England was occupied by Germans so completely as to destroy every trace of the ancient ...
... Rome , iii . , 396 ; and John Ormsby , in Cornhill Magazine , 1870 , p . 425. The words of Niebuhr to which I refer are as follows : " As one part of England was occupied by Germans so completely as to destroy every trace of the ancient ...
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Seite 39 - 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 48 - 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 415 - Brescia, who lived at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, and died 1510, at Bergamo, at a very advanced age.
Seite 48 - We authorise 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.
Seite 278 - Adams says that the period from the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the thirteenth centuries was an interval of "almost unparalleled prosperity...
Seite 225 - To bring the world back again within the pale of the Church was the aim of two religious orders which sprang suddenly to life at the opening of the thirteenth century. The zeal of the Spaniard Dominic was roused at the sight of the lordly prelates who sought by fire and sword to win the Albigensian heretics to the faith. "Zeal...
Seite 54 - So numerous were the receivers in comparison with the payers, and so enormous the weight of taxation, that the labourer broke down, the plains became deserts, and woods grew where the plough had been It were impossible to number the officials who were rained upon every province and town The crack of the lash and the cry of the tortured filled the air. The faithful...
Seite 47 - 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 198 - ... remains that they had two daughters, who married into some of the noblest houses of all Spain. The elder, Christina, became the wife of Ramiro, Infante of Navarre; while the younger, Maria, married Count Ramon Berenguer III. of Barcelona. After a long series of intermarriages, to quote from Burke, in a double stream, through the royal houses of Spain and of France, the blood of the Cid is found to flow in the veins of his majesty Alfonso XIII., the reigning King of Spain. The religious side of...
Seite 289 - ... calculations. Their progress in mathematical geography was no less remarkable. The works of Ibn-Haukal. of Makrizi, al-Istakhri. Masudi, al-Beiruni, al-Kumi and al-Idrisi, Kazwini, Ibn ul-Wardi, and Abu'l Feda, show what the Saracens attained in this department of science, called by them the rasm-ularz. At a time when Europe firmly believed in the flatness of the earth, and was ready to burn any foolhardy person who thought otherwise, the Arabs taught geography by globes.