A New Universal Biography, Containing Interesting Accounts, Band 3Sherwood, Jones, and Company, 1825 |
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... took Damas- cus , and reduced a great part of Syria . He invaded Egypt the following year , but was compelled to retreat by the inhabitants of Cairo . In 1078 Shah Malek undertook to complete the conquest of Turkestan , which had been ...
... took Damas- cus , and reduced a great part of Syria . He invaded Egypt the following year , but was compelled to retreat by the inhabitants of Cairo . In 1078 Shah Malek undertook to complete the conquest of Turkestan , which had been ...
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... took by force , though Alexius afterwards recovered it . Bohemond was afterwards taken prisoner , and obliged to pay a large ransom , and finding himself inferior in strength to the emperor , he secretly passed over into Italy , went to ...
... took by force , though Alexius afterwards recovered it . Bohemond was afterwards taken prisoner , and obliged to pay a large ransom , and finding himself inferior in strength to the emperor , he secretly passed over into Italy , went to ...
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... took Jerusalem from the Turks in 1099 ; and was made king ; but his piety would not permit him to wear a crown of gold in the city where his Sa- viour had been crowned with thorns , and he governed under the modest appellation of ...
... took Jerusalem from the Turks in 1099 ; and was made king ; but his piety would not permit him to wear a crown of gold in the city where his Sa- viour had been crowned with thorns , and he governed under the modest appellation of ...
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... took place in his favour at Rome . At the next vacancy , Victor II . was chosen by the Romans , and Hildebrand procured his confirmation from the emperor ; and thus the contending claims were for a while quieted . A renewed war in ...
... took place in his favour at Rome . At the next vacancy , Victor II . was chosen by the Romans , and Hildebrand procured his confirmation from the emperor ; and thus the contending claims were for a while quieted . A renewed war in ...
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... took possession of the fortress of Gisors on the frontiers of France . This quickly brought on a war , in which Henry was defeated , and his son William obliged to do homage to Lewis for Normandy . But Lewis not long after espoused the ...
... took possession of the fortress of Gisors on the frontiers of France . This quickly brought on a war , in which Henry was defeated , and his son William obliged to do homage to Lewis for Normandy . But Lewis not long after espoused the ...
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Seite 18 - I have loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile...
Seite 455 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil.
Seite 160 - Richard, therefore, concluded a truce with that monarch, and stipulated that Acre, Joppa, and other sea-port towns of Palestine, should remain in the hands of the Christians, and that every one of that religion should have liberty to perform his pilgrimage to Jerusalem unmolested.
Seite 203 - Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Seite 186 - Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him : I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Seite 440 - This gentleman being sent out by Henry, before the battle, to reconnoitre the enemy, and to find out their strength, made this report : — " May it please you, my liege, there are enough to be killed, enough to be taken prisoners, and enough to run away.
Seite 38 - Godeva, bearing an extraordinary affection to this place, often and earnestly besought her husband that for the love of God and the blessed Virgin, he would free it from that grievous servitude whereunto it was subject : but he rebuking her for importuning him in a...
Seite 192 - Innocent may boast of the two most signal triumphs over sense and humanity, the establishment of transubstantiation, and the origin of the inquisition.
Seite 434 - This prince lived in a more magnificent manner than perhaps any of his predecessors or successors. His household consisted of ten thousand persons : he had three hundred in his kitchen ; and all the other offices were furnished in proportion1".
Seite 238 - It was on the twenty-seventh of July, in the year twelve hundred and ninety-nine of the Christian aera, that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia *; and the singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and destructive growth of the monster.