Epoch Men, and the Results of Their LivesW.P. Nimmo, 1865 - 312 頁 |
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... crown and government , resolved to quiet , by resolute and indomitable . perseverance , the noisy wranglings of many classes and many kings ? CHARLEMAGNE , the restorer of social order , letters , and rule . CHAPTER II . CHARLEMAGNE ...
... crown and government , resolved to quiet , by resolute and indomitable . perseverance , the noisy wranglings of many classes and many kings ? CHARLEMAGNE , the restorer of social order , letters , and rule . CHAPTER II . CHARLEMAGNE ...
第 12 頁
... crown prince , and his mother and sister were ennobled , in fact , by the success of Pepin . Though this was accomplished , however , there is little doubt that great art and care required to be exercised , lest those lately ac- quired ...
... crown prince , and his mother and sister were ennobled , in fact , by the success of Pepin . Though this was accomplished , however , there is little doubt that great art and care required to be exercised , lest those lately ac- quired ...
第 13 頁
... crown prince from the font with his own hands , so specially did he desire to mark his favour to the new dynasty . There can be little doubt that Charlemagne , in the spring of the following year , 754 , accompanied his father in his ...
... crown prince from the font with his own hands , so specially did he desire to mark his favour to the new dynasty . There can be little doubt that Charlemagne , in the spring of the following year , 754 , accompanied his father in his ...
第 21 頁
... crown , and annexed its territories to his own dominions . While Charlemagne was employed in Italy , the Saxons , presuming upon his finding occupation there , invaded his empire . Calling a diet at Duren , near Aix - la - Chapelle , he ...
... crown , and annexed its territories to his own dominions . While Charlemagne was employed in Italy , the Saxons , presuming upon his finding occupation there , invaded his empire . Calling a diet at Duren , near Aix - la - Chapelle , he ...
第 22 頁
... crown . " Wittekind , the celebrated Saxon leader , -who had fled , dismayed by the prowess and skill of the armies of Charlemagne , —had returned from his refuge in the Danish court , and had re- excited his compatriots to renew their ...
... crown . " Wittekind , the celebrated Saxon leader , -who had fled , dismayed by the prowess and skill of the armies of Charlemagne , —had returned from his refuge in the Danish court , and had re- excited his compatriots to renew their ...
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第 128 頁 - twas wondrous pitiful : She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd That Heaven had made her such a man : she thank'd me ; And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake : She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd ; And I loved her that she did pity them.
第 90 頁 - And, when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left, Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory, images and precious thoughts, That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
第 35 頁 - The appellation of great has been often bestowed, and sometimes deserved, but CHARLEMAGNE is the only prince in whose favour the title has been indissolubly blended with the name. That name, with the addition of saint, is inserted in the Roman calendar; and the saint, by a rare felicity, is crowned with the praises of the historians and philosophers of an enlightened...
第 146 頁 - Abdiel, faithful found. Among the faithless faithful only he : Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example with him wrought To 'swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single.
第 305 頁 - We have said that Mr. Watt was the great Improver of the steamengine ; but, in truth, as to all that is admirable in its structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its Inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable...
第 297 頁 - Combs the wide card, and forms th' eternal line : Slow, with soft lips, the whirling can acquires The tender skeins, and wraps in rising spires ; With quickened pace, successive rollers move, And these retain, and those extend, the rove ; Then fly the spokes, the rapid axles glow, While slowly circumvolves the lab'ring wheel below.
第 85 頁 - I have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity ; and therefore I die in exile...
第 266 頁 - Amidst this company stood Mr. Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an...
第 151 頁 - Love,' where the poet is as evidently and avowedly referring to himself as poet well can, he speaks of the City of London that is " to me so dear and sweet, in which I was forth grown ; and more kindly love have I to that place, than to any other in earth ; as every kindly creature hath full appetite to that place of his kindly engendure, and to wiln [wish] rest and peace in that stead [place] to abide.