Great Events
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共 38 段- In 382 a treaty was made which restored peace to the Eastern
- Yet before they fell, Eusebius and Allobich had contributed
- There exists in human nature a strong propensity to deprecia
- Whether human sacrifices formed any part of the worship of A
- It would have been strange, indeed, if Theodosius had purcha
- A solemn embassy, armed with full powers and magnificent gif
- Surely much of this is little more than the tumid rhetoric o
- "It affects, more or less, the whole west of Europe, from th
- The confederate armies of Romans and Visigoths at last met t
- As the Huns marched on Vicenza, Verona, Brescia, Bergamo, al
- The impotent feelings of romance, so singularly characterist
- After the commencement of the fifth century, from A.D. 406 t
- Other chroniclers say that Aurelian, seeing the battle in da
- His two great masters of war, foreigners in origin like hims
- At the call of indigence or avarice the master of a family c
- Except in the singular institutions of Sparta, the wisest le
- 8. The nocturnal mischief of damaging or destroying a neighb
- [27] Pisa was taken by the Florentines in the year 1406; and
- Answered by Pope Gregory: Over the bishops of Gaul we give t
- The terms were accepted; the emissaries from Medina placed t
- At the beginning of the action the Mussulmans attacked the i
- Mahomet had given orders to his men to enter Mecca peaceably
- The Mahometan religion consists of two parts, faith and prac
- [57] Several stories have been told as the occasion of Mahom
- However, their satisfaction was greatly lessened by the loss
- Upon this the gates were immediately opened, and the Caliph
- Constantine, the emperor Heraclius' son, guarded that part o
- On this second capture of the city by force of arms, and wit
- The creation of an ecclesiastical system had been one of the
- When the armies drew nearer to each other, the princes began
- It is not only by the modern Christian poet, but by the old
- "There was an important point," says M. Fauriel, "in respect
- There had been absent from this great meeting a Saxon chieft
- History says no more; but in the poetry of the people there
- "The second business of the King was to ask of each what the
- Charlemagne formed another conception and made another attem
- 452. Attila, after withdrawing from Gaul, ravages Italy; he
- 709. Roderic ascends the Gothic throne in Spain.