Of the coast of Anatolia, they possessed the entire circuit from Trebizond to the Syrian gates. His chamber of justice was the terror of the great and the refuge of the poor.
THE CRUSADES
By the command of Noureddin, and the sentence of the doctors, the holy names of. In the fifth,85 two hundred thousand Franks were landed at the eastern mouth of the Nile.
THE FOURTH CRUSADE
The victorious charioteers were cast in bronze, at their own or the public charge, and fitly placed in the hippodrome: they stood aloft in their
The sphinx, river-horse, and crocodile, denote the climate and manufacture of Egypt and the spoils of that ancient province
The she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, a subject alike pleasing to the old and the new Romans, but which could really be treated before the
An eagle holding and tearing a serpent in his talons, a domestic
An ass and his driver, which were erected by Augustus in his colony ofNicopolis, to commemorate a verbal omen of the victory of Actium.
An ass and his driver, which were erected by Augustus in his colony of Nicopolis, to commemorate a verbal omen of the victory of Actium
An equestrian statue which passed, in the vulgar opinion, for Joshua, the Jewish conqueror, stretching out his hand to stop the course of the
A square and lofty obelisk of brass; the sides were embossed with a variety of picturesque and rural scenes, birds singing; rustics laboring, or
The Phrygian shepherd presenting to Venus the prize of beauty, the apple of discord
The incomparable statue of Helen, which is delineated by Nicetas in the words of admiration and love: her well-turned feet, snowy arms, rosy lips,
A colossal statue of Juno, which had once adorned her temple of Samos, the enormous head by four yoke of oxen was laboriously drawn to
Another colossus, of Pallas or Minerva, thirty feet in height, andrepresenting with admirable spirit the attributes and character of the.
Another colossus, of Pallas or Minerva, thirty feet in height, and representing with admirable spirit the attributes and character of the
PARTITION OF THE EMPIRE BY THE FRENCH AND VENETIANS
Of Edessa;
Of France; and I Of England;
Before the introduction of trade, which scatters riches, and of knowledge, which dispels prejudice, the prerogative of birth is most
From the reign of Robert, the son of Hugh Capet, the barons of Courtenay are conspicuous among the immediate vassals of the crown; and Joscelin, the grandson of Atho and a noble dame, is enrolled among the heroes of the first crusade. In a holy warfare of thirty years, he was alternately a conqueror and a captive: but he died like a soldier, in a horse litter at the head of his troops; and his last glance beheld the flight of the Turkish invaders who had presumed on his age and infirmities. His son and successor, of the same name, was less deficient in valor than in vigilance; but he sometimes forgot that dominion is acquired and maintained by the same arms.
He challenged the hostility of the Turks, without securing the friendship of the prince of Antioch;.
While Joscelin reigned beyond the Euphrates, his elder brother Milo, the son of Joscelin, the son of Atho, continued, near the Seine, to possess
- Of all the families now extant, the most ancient, doubtless, and the most illustrious, is the house of France, which has occupied the same throne
- The barons of Courtenay must have stood high in their own estimation, and in that of the world, since they could impose on the son of a king the
The more adventurous embraced without dishonor the profession of a soldier: the least active and opulent might sink, like their cousins of the branch of Dreux, into the condition of peasants. Their royal descent, in a dark period of four hundred years, became each day more obsolete and ambiguous; and their pedigree, instead of being enrolled in the annals of the kingdom, must be painfully searched by the minute diligence of heralds and genealogists. It was not till the end of the sixteenth century, on the accession of a family almost as remote as their own, that the.
The Bourbon kings were justified by the neglect of the Valois; the princes of the blood, more recent and lofty, disdained the alliance of his humble kindred: the parliament, without denying their proofs, eluded a dangerous precedent by an arbitrary distinction, and established St.
According to the old register of Ford Abbey, the Courtenays of
By sea and land they fought under the standard of the Edwards and Henries: their names. In the quarrel of the two roses, the earls of Devon adhered to the house of Lancaster; and three brothers successively died either in the field or on the scaffold. But there still survived a lineal descendant of Hugh, the first earl of Devon, a younger branch of the Courtenays, who have been seated at Powderham Castle above four hundred years, from the reign of Edward the Third to the present hour.
Their estates have been increased by the grant and improvement of lands in Ireland, and they have been recently restored to the honors of the peerage.
GREEK EMPERORS OF NICE AND CONSTANTINOPLE
In the succeeding reign, as he held the government of Nice, he was secretly informed, that the mind of the absent prince was poisoned with
Instead of awaiting the return and sentence of Theodore, the constable, with some followers, escaped from the city and the empire; and though he was plundered by the Turkmans of the desert, he found a hospitable refuge in the court of the sultan. In the ambiguous state of an exile, Michael reconciled the duties of gratitude and loyalty: drawing his sword against the Tartars; admonishing the garrisons of the Roman limit; and promoting, by his influence, the restoration of peace, in which his pardon and recall were honorably included. While he guarded the West against the despot of Epirus, Michael wasagain suspected and condemned in the palace; and such was his loyalty or.
While he guarded the West against the despot of Epirus, Michael was again suspected and condemned in the palace; and such was his loyalty or
Trade had expired under the pressure of anarchy and distress, and the numbers of inhabitants had decreased with the opulence of the city. It was the first care of the Greek monarch to reinstate the nobles in the palaces of their fathers; and the houses or the ground which they occupied were restored to the families that could exhibit a legal right of inheritance. But his claims still lived in the minds of the people; and the royal youth must speedily attain the years of manhood and ambition.
After a short abdication of his dignity, Arsenius23 had consented to ascend the ecclesiastical throne of Constantinople, and to preside in the restoration of the church.
The Vatican was the most natural refuge of a Latin emperor, who had been driven from his throne; and Pope Urban the Fourth appeared to pity
The victories of Michael were achieved by his lieutenants; his sword rusted in the palace; and, in the transactions of the emperor with the popes and the king of Naples, his political acts were stained with cruelty and fraud.28. Constantinople, but they rejected the chains of the Roman pontiff, and supported their refusal by successful arms. They were conducted to the prison, to behold four princes of the royal blood chained in the four corners, and shaking their fetters in an agony of grief and rage.
In the distress of the Latins, the walls and towers of Constantinoplehad fallen to decay: they were restored and fortified by the policy of.
In the distress of the Latins, the walls and towers of Constantinople had fallen to decay: they were restored and fortified by the policy of
Among the proscribed adherents of the house of Swabia, John of Procida forfeited a small island of that name in the Bay of Naples. Victory renewed the hopes and numbers of the adventures: every nation was blended under the name and standard of the great company;. After their separation from the Turks, the remains of the great company pursued their march through Macedonia and Thessaly, to seek a new establishment in the heart of Greece.50.
After some ages of oblivion, Greece was awakened to new misfortunes by the arms of the Latins.
CIVIL WARS AND
THE RUIN OF THE GREEK EMPIRE
The third civil war was terminated by the surprise of Constantinople, the final retreat of the old emperor, and the sole reign of his victorious grandson. The reasons of this delay may be found in the characters of the men and of the times. The first, Agnes at home, Irene in Greece, was daughter of the duke of Brunswick.
The defenceless situation which secured their obedience exposed them to the attack of their Venetian rivals, who, in the reign of the elder.
MOGULS, OTTOMAN TURKDS
In the East;
In the South;
In the West; and IV. In the North
Before the invasion of Zingis, China was divided into two empires or dynasties of the North and South; 22 and the difference of origin and
Yet the war (it was now styled a rebellion) was still maintained in the southern provinces from Hamcheu to Canton; and the obstinate remnant of independence and hostility was transported from the land to the sea. It is more glorious,” he cried, “to die a prince, than to live a slave.” A hundred thousand Chinese imitated his example; and the whole empire, from Tonkin to the great wall, submitted to the dominion of Cublai. His boundless ambition aspired to the conquest of Japan: his fleet was twice shipwrecked; and the lives of a hundred thousand Moguls and Chinese were sacrificed in the fruitless expedition.
He explored the Indian Ocean with a fleet of a thousand ships: they sailed in sixty-eight days, most probably to the Isle of Borneo, under the equinoctial line; and though they returned not without spoil or glory, the emperor was dissatisfied that the savage king had escaped from their hands.
The conquest of Hindostan by the Moguls was reserved in a later period for the house of Timour; but that of Iran, or Persia, was achieved
The daggers of his missionaries were felt both in the East and West: the Christians and the Moslems enumerate, and persons multiply, the illustrious victims that were sacrificed to the zeal, avarice, or resentment of the old man (as he was corruptly styled) of the mountain. The extinction of the Abbassides cannot be indifferent to the spectators of their greatness and decline. After a siege of two months, Bagdad was stormed and sacked by the Moguls;25a and their savage commander pronounced the death of the caliph.
No sooner had Octai subverted the northern empire of China, than heresolved to visit with his arms the most remote countries of the West.
No sooner had Octai subverted the northern empire of China, than he resolved to visit with his arms the most remote countries of the West
The whole country north of the Danube was lost in a day, and depopulated in a summer; and the ruins of cities and churches were overspread with the bones of the natives, who expiated the sins of their Turkish ancestors. In the winter the Tartars passed the Danube on the ice, and advanced to Gran or Strigonium, a German colony, and the metropolis of the kingdom. Of all the cities and fortresses of Hungary, three alone survived the Tartar invasion, and the unfortunate Bata hid his head among the islands of the Adriatic.
Even the poor and frozen regions of the north attracted the arms of theMoguls: Sheibani khan, the brother of the great Batou, led a horde of.
Even the poor and frozen regions of the north attracted the arms of the Moguls: Sheibani khan, the brother of the great Batou, led a horde of
He struggled with the barbarism of the first conquerors; but his salutary lessons produced a rich. The first terror of their arms secured, rather than disturbed, the peace of the Roman Asia. From the conquest of Prusa, we may date the true aera of the Ottoman empire.
The servitude of Rhodes was delayed about two centuries by the establishment of the knights of St.
ELEVATION OF TIMOUR OR TAMERLANE, AND HIS DEATH
- Persia,
- Tartary, and, I India, 13
- A just retaliation might be urged for the invasion of Turkestan, or the Eastern Tartary. The dignity of Timour could not endure the impunity of
- When Timour first proposed to his princes and emirs the invasion of India or Hindostan, 24 he was answered by a murmur of discontent: “The
From the twelfth year of his age, Timour had entered the field of action; in the twenty-fifth11a he stood forth as the deliverer of his country; and the eyes and wishes of the people were turned towards a hero who suffered in their cause. From the Oxus to the Tigris, that extensive country was left without a lawful sovereign since the death of Abousaid, the last of the descendants of the great Holacou. In a march of five months, they rarely beheld the footsteps of man; and their daily subsistence was often trusted to the fortune of the chase.
But the peaceful visit of an emir, who explored the state of the magazines and harbor, was speedily.
