History of the Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius the Great to the Coronation of Charles the Great, A.D. 395-800

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Rivingtons, 1875 - Europe - 279 pages
 

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Page 222 - The faith which, under the name of Islam, he preached to his family and nation is compounded of an eternal truth, and a necessary fiction, That there is only one God, and that Mahomet is the Apostle of God.
Page 258 - Roman patrician — knelt in prayer by the high altar, and as in the sight of all he placed upon the brow of the barbarian chieftain the diadem of the Caesars, then bent in obeisance before him, the church rang to the shout of the multitude, again free, again the lords and centre of the world, "Karolo Augusto a Deo coronato magno et pacifico imperatori vita et victoria.
Page 264 - But this book will have been written in vain if it has not shown a " continuity of history " even in these confused 400 years.
Page 220 - Let those who promulgate my faith enter into no argument nor discussion ; but slay all who refuse obedience to the law. Whoever fights for the true faith, whether he fall or conquer, will assuredly receive a glorious reward.
Page 94 - God for all things,' and having concluded with his last Amen, he stretched forth those feet of his which had been so beautiful in their running, whether to convey salvation to the penitent or reproof to the hardened in sin And being gathered to his fathers, and shaking off this mortal dust, he passed to Christ.
Page 104 - Hortantes bis adde Deos : non somnia nobis , Nec volucres , sed clara palam vox edita luco est. Rumpe omnes , Alarice , moras ; hoc impiger anno Alpibus Italiae ruptis penetrabis ab Urbem.
Page v - The nations which have stood out foremost among all have been the Greeks, the Romans, and the Teutons. And among these it is the Romans who form the centre of the whole story. Rome alone founded a universal Empire in which all earlier history loses itself, and out of which all later history grew. That Empire, at the time of its greatest extent, took in the whole of what was then the civilized world, that is to say, the countries round about the Mediterranean Sea, alike in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Page iii - The Roman Empire. From the Death of Theodosius the Great to the Coronation of Charles the Great, AD 395 to AD 800. By AM CURTEIS, MA, AssistantMaster at Sherborne School, late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. With Maps. Crown 8vo. y. 6d. Forming a Volume of "Historical Handbooks," edited by OSCAR BROWNING, MA , Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
Page 193 - The traditional derivation was from this name, and possibly some case might be made out for it. "Two hordes of 'White' Huns, called respectively Cutriguri and Utiguri, in all probability a fusion of Finns and Ugrians (Igoura or Ogors), to the latter of whom and their terrible reputation in less barbarous countries we owe the familiar ' ogres ' of our children's story-books.
Page 94 - ... to the martyr's shrine whence they had started. " When he got there, he asked for white vestments, suitable to the tenor of his past life ; and taking off his clothes of travel, he clad himself in them from head to foot, being still fasting, and then gave away his old ones to those about him. Then, having communicated in the symbols of the Lord, he made the closing prayer 'On present needs' He said his customary words, 'Glory be to God for all things...

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