The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1866 |
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... arms ; but she received only a faint tincture of Roman arts and letters . Of the western pro- vinces which obeyed the Cæsars , she was the last that was conquered , and the first that was flung away . No magnifi- cent remains of Latin ...
... arms ; but she received only a faint tincture of Roman arts and letters . Of the western pro- vinces which obeyed the Cæsars , she was the last that was conquered , and the first that was flung away . No magnifi- cent remains of Latin ...
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... arms were repeatedly carried far into the heart of the Carlovingian empire , and were victorious under the walls of Maestricht and Paris . At length one of the feeble heirs of Charlemagne ceded to the strangers a fertile province ...
... arms were repeatedly carried far into the heart of the Carlovingian empire , and were victorious under the walls of Maestricht and Paris . At length one of the feeble heirs of Charlemagne ceded to the strangers a fertile province ...
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... scattered the Celts of Con- naught . Another founded the monarchy of the Two Sicilies , and saw the emperors both of the East and of the West fly CHAP . I. CHAP . I. The Norman Conquest . before his arms BEFORE THE RESTORATION . 9.
... scattered the Celts of Con- naught . Another founded the monarchy of the Two Sicilies , and saw the emperors both of the East and of the West fly CHAP . I. CHAP . I. The Norman Conquest . before his arms BEFORE THE RESTORATION . 9.
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... arms . A third , the Ulysses of the first crusade , was invested by his fellow soldiers with the sovereignty of Antioch ; and a fourth , the Tancred whose name lives in the great poem of Tasso , was celebrated through Christendom as the ...
... arms . A third , the Ulysses of the first crusade , was invested by his fellow soldiers with the sovereignty of Antioch ; and a fourth , the Tancred whose name lives in the great poem of Tasso , was celebrated through Christendom as the ...
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... arms , a great empire on the Continent . The claim of Edward to the inheritance occupied by the House of Va- lois was a claim in which it might seem that his subjects were little interested .. But the passion for conquest spread fast ...
... arms , a great empire on the Continent . The claim of Edward to the inheritance occupied by the House of Va- lois was a claim in which it might seem that his subjects were little interested .. But the passion for conquest spread fast ...
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