The Prelude to Modern History: Being a Brief Sketch of the World's History from the Third to the Ninth CenturyRivingtons, 1890 - 139 pages |
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Africa Alaric Alexandria Arian army assemblies Attila authority Avars barbarians became Belisarius bishops Burgundians C. H. PARRY Caesar Caliph Charles chief chiefly Christianity civilization claimed clergy conquered conquerors conquests Constantine Constantinople Council Council of Nicaea Danube death despotism Diocletian doctrine dominions Donatists E. H. MOORE East Eastern Easy Latin ecclesiastical elected Emperor English established Europe fighting followed Frankish Franks Gaul Genseric Gepidae German Goths Greek Gregory H. R. HEATLEY heathen heretical HISTORIC SUMMARY Huns imperial invaders invasion Islam Italy Justinian king land Lombards Maximian military Mohammed Mohammedan ninth century Odoacer orthodox Ostrogoths Papacy persecution Persians Pippin Placidia Pope practically Prose province race reign religion Ricimer rival Roman Empire Rome ruled rulers Saracens Saxons Scandinavian secular seems SIDGWICK Slavs soon sort Spain Stilicho STORR struggle subjects successors SUMMARY OF CHAPTER supremacy Tartar Teutonic Theodosius tribes Valentinian III Vandals Visigoths West Western Church Western Empire
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Page 6 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 99 - Andalusia were in the van of science : women were encouraged to devote themselves to serious study, and the lady doctor was not unknown among the people of Cordova. Mathematics, astronomy and botany, history, philosophy and jurisprudence were to be mastered in Spain, and Spain alone. The practical work of the field, the scientific methods of irrigation, the arts of fortification and shipbuilding, the highest and most elaborate products of the loom, the graver and the hammer, the potter's wheel and...
Page 4 - If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy.
Page 91 - A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done in this world to his fellow-men. "When he dies, people will ask, What property has he left behind him...
Page 99 - Guadiana, whose names, and names only, still commemorate the vanished glories of their past. Art, literature, and science prospered, as they then prospered nowhere else in Europe. Students flocked from France and Germany and England to drink from the fountain of learning which flowed only in the cities of the Moors.
Page 98 - For nearly eight centuries, under her Mohammedan rulers, Spain set to all Europe a shining example of a civilized and enlightened State. Her fertile provinces, rendered doubly prolific by the industry and engineering skill of her conquerors, bore fruit an hundredfold. Cities innumerable sprang up in the rich valleys of the Guadelquivir and the Guadiana, whose names, and names only, still commemorate the vanished glories of their past.
Page 126 - ... from. Not only was this permitted to all, but they were strictly enjoined to make inquiries during the interval between the assemblies, about what happened within or without the kingdom ; and they were bound to seek knowledge from foreigners as well as natives, enemies as well as friends, sometimes by employing emissaries, and without troubling themselves much about the manner in which they acquired their information. The king...
Page 126 - ... people were restless, and what was the cause of their restlessness; or whether there had happened any disturbance to which it was necessary to draw the attention of the council-general, and other similar matters. He sought also to know whether any of the subjugated nations were inclined to revolt; whether any of those that had revolted seemed disposed towards submission; and whether those that were still independent were threatening the kingdom with any attack. On all these subjects, whenever...
Page 126 - ... youngsters, and doing the same thing, or something like it, with the ecclesiastics as well as the seculars. However, if those who were deliberating about the matter submitted to their examination showed a desire for it, the king repaired to them and remained with them as long as they wished ; and then they reported to him with perfect familiarity what they thought about all matters, and what were the friendly discussions that had arisen amongst them. I must not forget to say that, if the weather...