A History of Greece: Mediaeval Greece and the empire of Trebizond, A.D. 1204-1461

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Clarendon Press, 1877
 

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עמוד 389 - ... and we gave the understanding thereof unto Solomon. And on all of them we bestowed wisdom and knowledge. And we compelled the mountains to praise us, with David ; and the birds also : and we did this. (80) And we taught him the art of making coats of mail for you, that they may defend you in your wars...
עמוד 425 - In concluding the history of this Greek state, we inquire in vain for any benefit that it conferred on the human race. It seems a mere eddy in the torrent of events that connects the past with the future. The tumultuous agitation of the stream did not purify a single drop of the waters of life.
עמוד 134 - Wats. 1684. pp. 770, 721) as having been instructed by a daughter of the Archbishop of Athens; and this Archbishop is believed by Hopf to be Michael Akominatos, who in this case must have been married before he was consecrated bishop. The passage in Matthew Paris is as follows : — ' Quaedam puella, filia Archiepiscopi Atheniensis, nomine Constantina, nondum vicesimum agens annum, virtutibus praedita, omnem trivii et quadrivii noverat dimeultatem : unde alteram Catherinam, vel Catherinam consuevit...
עמוד 161 - The republic of Florence deemed it an object worthy of its especial attention to obtain a commercial treaty with the duchy, for the purpose of securing to the citizens of the republic all the privileges enjoyed by the Venetians, Catalans, and Genoese.
עמוד 155 - The count de Foix, endeavouring to persuade Roger de Lauria, the great admiral, to consent to a truce, observed, ' France can arm three hundred galleys.' ' Let her do it,' exclaimed Lauria : ' I will sweep the sea with my hundred, and no ship without leave from the king of Aragon shall pass : no, nor shall a fish dare to raise its head above the water, unless I can see that it bears the arms of Aragon on its tail.
עמוד 159 - ... extensive connections, one of the most influential barons of Achaia ; and, from the disorderly state of the principality, he was enabled to act as an independent prince.
עמוד 36 - ... guarantee the dominant class from annihilation. On the other hand, it teaches us that conquered tribes, destitute of all these advantages, may continue to perpetuate their existence in misery and contempt. It is that portion only of mankind which eats bread raised from the soil by the sweat of its brow, that can form the basis of a permanent national existence.
עמוד 29 - Wallachia, the inhabitants of which country are called Vlachi. They are as nimble as deer, and descend from their mountains into the plains of Greece, committing robberies and making booty. Nobody ventures to make war upon them, nor can any king bring them to submission, and they do not profess the Christian faith.
עמוד 143 - The city was large and wealthy, the country thickly covered with villages, of which the ruins may still be traced in spots affording no indications of Hellenic sites. Aqueducts and cisterns then gave fertility to land now unproductive ; olive, almond, [Ch.VI.
עמוד 192 - But no royal or noble family of England is known to have possessed any territory in the Peloponnesus, and there can be no question, that Clarentia or Clarencia was the district of Clare, in Suffolk. The title was first given in 1362, by Edward III...

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