History of
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共 44 段- The patient East abjured, with reluctance, her sacred images
- The mutual obligations of the popes and the Carlovingian fam
- It was after the Nicene synod, and under the reign of the pi
- Otho was of the noble race of the dukes of Saxony; and if he
- The Barbarian conquerors of the West were pleased to decorat
- The perpetual independence of the Arabs has been the theme o
- Arabia was free: the adjacent kingdoms were shaken by the st
- The mission of the ancient prophets, of Moses and of Jesus h
- The religion of the Koran might have perished in its cradle,
- The conquest of Mecca determined the faith and obedience of
- In the largest indulgence of polygamy, the founder of a reli
- When the sisters and children of Ali were brought in chains
- The indignation and fears of the Persians suspended for a mo
- The conquest of Bosra, four days' journey from Damascus, enc
- Syria, one of the countries that have been improved by the m
- The place of the first conquerors was supplied by a new gene
- I should deceive the expectation of the reader, if I passed
- The return of domestic peace allowed the caliph Abdalmalek t
- The exploits of Musa were performed in the evening of life,
- Forty-six years after the flight of Mahomet from Mecca, his
- From such calamities was Christendom delivered by the genius
- Under the reign of the Ommiades, the studies of the Moslems
- In the sufferings of prostrate Italy, the name of Rome awake
- After the revolt of Spain from the temporal and spiritual su
- After the final division between the sons of Theodosius, the
- In an absolute government, which levels the distinctions of
- The wealth of the Greeks enabled them to purchase the servic
- In the ninth century we trace the first dawnings of the rest
- The most furious and desperate of rebels are the sectaries o
- I. In his march to Italy, Theodoric the Ostrogoth had trampl
- The deliverance of Germany and Christendom was achieved by t
- Nicephorus could no longer expel the mischief which he had i
- The establishment of the Normans in the kingdoms of Naples a
- The Italian conquests of Robert correspond with the limits o
- It is more than probable that Guiscard was not afflicted by
- A prince of such a temper could not be satisfied with having
- From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations)
- As long as a hope survived, Romanus attempted to rally and s
- But the most interesting conquest of the Seljukian Turks was
- So familiar, and as it were so natural to man, is the practi
- None of the great sovereigns of Europe embarked their person
- Private or public interest suppressed the murmurs of the duk
- In the eventful period of the siege and defence of Antioch,
- Without this indulgence, the conqueror would have almost bee