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Page 96 - And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm...
Page 352 - But the true explanation is that Fredwas one of a number of which it was customary to use as beginnings of names, and -ric was one of the words which it was customary to use as endings. Any word belonging to the one list might be joined to any word in the other list, even if the two were quite contradictory in sense. There are, for instance, ancient German names, which, if translated literally, would be " peace-spear," and
Page 17 - Most likely it was simply the natural increase of their population, aided perhaps by the failure of their harvests or the outbreak of a pestilence, that made them sensible of the poverty of their country, and led them to cast longing eyes towards the richer and more genial lands farther to the south, of which they had heard, and which some of them may have visited.
Page 9 - Roman writers bring against them is that of faithlessness to their treaties, a charge frequently made by civilized peoples against barbarians, and one which the barbarians have too often had good reason to retort.
Page 1 - ... history of their short period of greatness has to be learned from ignorant and careless writers, who have left untold a great deal that we would gladly know. And yet the story of the Goths is not without powerful attractions of its own. In all history there is nothing more romantically marvellous than the swift rise of this people to the height of greatness, or than the suddenness and the tragic completeness of their ruin.
Page 87 - Romans, of necessity, submitted to the severe terms of the conqueror, and delivered to him five thousand pounds' weight of gold, thirty thousand pounds of silver, four thousand tunics of silk, three thousand scarlet skins, and three thousand pounds of pepper. The vanquished inhabitants, for their ransom, had melted the golden statue of Courage, which they called the Martial Virtue.
Page 82 - Alaric was able to retreat in good order, and he soon after crossed the Po with the intention of marching against Rome. However, his troops began to desert in large numbers, and he had to change his purpose. In the first place he thought of invading Gaul, but Stilicho overtook him and defeated him heavily at Verona.
Page 111 - State. The Visigoth kings were Arians ; the great mass of their subjects in Gaul were Catholics, and the hatred between religious parties was so great that it was almost impossible for a sovereign to win the attachment of subjects who regarded him as a heretic.
Page 116 - Visigoths were totally defeated, and their king was killed. Alaric's son, Amalaric, a child five years of age, was carried across the Pyrenees into Spain. During the next two years Clovis conquered, with very little resistance, almost all the Gaulish dominions of the Visigoths, and added them to his own. The " Kingdom of Toulouse
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| Title | The Goths: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Gothic Dominion in Spain Volume 12 of Story of the nations |
| Author | Henry Bradley |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | T. Fisher Unwin, 1890 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| ISBN | 5875041315, 9785875041310 |
| Length | 376 pages |
| Subjects | › History / General |
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