The Collected Historical Works of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H.University Press, 1919 - 20 pàgines |
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Pàgina 261 - O for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, When Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died...
Pàgina 219 - Pro Deo amur et pro Christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di in avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo et in...
Pàgina lviii - God by means not unlike to those with which they had employed in order to appease their false deities. Instead of aspiring to sanctity and virtue, which alone can render men acceptable to the great Author of order and of excellence, they imagined that they...
Pàgina 219 - Karlo, et in adjudha et in cadhuna cosa, si cum om per dreit son fradra salvar dist, in o quid il mi altresi fazet ; et ab Ludher nul plaid nunquam prindrai , qui, meon vol, cist meon fradre Karle in damno sit.
Pàgina 157 - Had she not thus fascinated Duke Robert the Liberal of Normandy, Harold would not have fallen at Hastings, no Anglo-Norman dynasty could have arisen, no British empire.
Pàgina 211 - Normans,' we must always consider the appellation as descriptive rather than ethnographical, indicative of political relations rather than of race. Like William the Conqueror's army, the hosts of Rollo were augmented by adventurers from all countries. Rollo exhibited a remarkable flexibility of character; he encouraged settlers from all parts of France and the Gauls and England, and his successors systematically obeyed the precedent.
Pàgina 171 - Eng. to till,} lying in the bailiwick of Norden and Bertum, are held by a very extraordinary tenure — we speak in the present tense, for the customs of the Theel-land were subsisting in the year 1805 ; and we do not suppose that they have since become obsolete. The agrarian law, elsewhere a phantom, either lovely or terrific according to the imagination of the spectator, is here fully realized.
Pàgina ix - The Speaker of the house of commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Master of the Rolls, the Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and the AccountantGeneral of the High Court of Chancery, were persons who, from their several situations, he should think highly proper to be of the number.
Pàgina 70 - Paris, hitherto almost unobserved in the Carlovingian Empire, now bursts into notice. The City of Revolutions begins her real history by the first French Revolution. Paris, where the influence, whether personal or constitutional, of the Sovereign was then at its minimum, which owed nothing to his favour or his bounty, where he was neither respected nor feared, and where the shadows of the Merovingian kings interred at Sainte Genevieve might seem s24—9s7 to threaten the usurping lineage, was appointed...
Pàgina lix - Heaven, were of such a nature as might have been expected from the rude ideas of the ages which devised and introduced them. They were either so unmeaning as to be altogether unworthy of the Being to whose honour they were consecrated, or so absurd as to be a disgrace...