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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6（#895）

Name: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6（#895）
Author: Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794; Milman, Henry Hart, 1791-1868 [Commentator]

作者：Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794; Milman, Henry Hart, 1791-1868 [Commentator]
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字数：1,172,108　来源：Project Gutenberg

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III. The swarms that followed the first crusade were destroy
By the arms of the Turks and Franks, the Fatimites had been
He might expect that the siege of a city so venerable on ear
The noblest monument of a conqueror's fame, and of the terro
After the loss of Jerusalem, Acre, [108] which is distant ab
In the series of the Byzantine princes, I have exhibited the
When the six ambassadors of the French pilgrims arrived at V
In relating the invasion of a great empire, it may seem stra
By the recent invasion, the Greeks were awakened from a drea
Their reputation and their language encouraged them, however
[Footnote 16: Their quarrel is told by Villehardouin (No. 14
In all civilized hostility, a treaty is established for the
[Footnote 45: See the reign of Baldwin II. till his expulsio
In the profession of Christianity, in the cultivation of a f
[Footnote 81: In his Britannia, in the list of the earls of
[Footnote 15: The judicial combat was abolished by St. Louis
But they found a country without a friend, a nation in which
I shall not, I trust, be accused of superstition; but I must
After the example of the first of the PalÊologi, the elder A
In the strong city of Demotica, his peculiar domain, the emp
For the conclusion of this chapter, I have reserved the Geno
The code of laws which Zingis dictated to his subjects was a
[Footnote 23: I depend on the knowledge and fidelity of the
In this shipwreck of nations, some surprise may be excited b
In the treaty with the empress Anne, the Ottoman prince had
After his enfranchisement from an oppressive guardian, John
I. For every war, a motive of safety or revenge, of honor or
The military republic of the Mamalukes still reigned in Egyp
From these opposite premises, a fair and moderate conclusion
Far different was the fate of the Ottoman monarchy. The mass
The only hope of salvation for the Greek empire, and the adj
Thirty years after the return of PalÊologus, his son and suc
[Footnote 35: The first objection of the Jews is on the deat
But as soon as festivity and form had given place to a more
Among the Greeks a numerous and opulent clergy was dedicated
After his example, the restoration of the Greek letters in I
The last hope of the falling city and empire was placed in t
During the whole transaction, the cardinal legate had observ
In the list of heroes, John Huniades and Scanderbeg are comm
In the reign of Amurath, he twice tasted of royalty, and twi
While Mahomet threatened the capital of the East, the Greek
The generosity of the Christian princes was cold and tardy;
In the confusion of darkness, an assailant may sometimes suc
Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory seem com
[Footnote 97: As I am now taking an everlasting farewell of
Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was expos
In the revolution of the twelfth century, which gave a new e
[Footnote 61: The decline of the Imperial arms and authority
[Footnote 81: The exile of Avignon is compared by the Italia
[Footnote 105: In the metrical life of Celestine V. by the c
A prophecy, or rather a summons, affixed on the church door
The ambition of the honors of chivalry [36] betrayed the mea
The succeeding pontificate of Innocent the Sixth opened a ne
I have not undertaken the ecclesiastical history of the schi
The spiritual thunders of the Vatican depend on the force of
[Footnote 7: The PËre Mabillon (Analecta, tom. iv. p. 502) h
[Footnote 341: From the quotations in Bunsen's Dissertation,
When Petrarch first gratified his eyes with a view of those