The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V.: With a View of the Progress of Society in Europe, from the Subversion of the Roman Empire to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century ...Hopkins & Seymour, and sold by G. F. Hopkins, 1804 - Europe |
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... nobility suffered some diminution of their credit upon the and power by the privileges granted to the cities , the crown the crown ; acquired an increase of both . As there were no regular troops kept on foot in any of the feudal ...
... nobility suffered some diminution of their credit upon the and power by the privileges granted to the cities , the crown the crown ; acquired an increase of both . As there were no regular troops kept on foot in any of the feudal ...
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... nobility , were possessed of an authority extremely limited . The laws and interior police of kingdoms , though much improved by the various events and regulations which I have enumerated , were still feeble and imperfect . In every ...
... nobility , were possessed of an authority extremely limited . The laws and interior police of kingdoms , though much improved by the various events and regulations which I have enumerated , were still feeble and imperfect . In every ...
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... nobility , heightened to an enthusiastic confidence , by a supposed interposition of Heaven in their behalf ; conducted in the field by skilful leaders ; and direct- ed in the cabinet by a prudent monarch ; was exerted with such vigour ...
... nobility , heightened to an enthusiastic confidence , by a supposed interposition of Heaven in their behalf ; conducted in the field by skilful leaders ; and direct- ed in the cabinet by a prudent monarch ; was exerted with such vigour ...
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... nobility courted this service , in which they were taught to depend on their sovereign , to execute his orders , and to look up to him as the judge and rewarder of their merit . The feudal militia , composed of the vassals whom SECT ...
... nobility courted this service , in which they were taught to depend on their sovereign , to execute his orders , and to look up to him as the judge and rewarder of their merit . The feudal militia , composed of the vassals whom SECT ...
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... nobility were greatly impaired during the long wars which the kingdom was obliged to maintain with the English . The extraordinary zeal with which they exerted themselves in defence of their country against its ancient enemies ...
... nobility were greatly impaired during the long wars which the kingdom was obliged to maintain with the English . The extraordinary zeal with which they exerted themselves in defence of their country against its ancient enemies ...
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Page 56 - The same spirit of enterprise which had prompted so many gentlemen to take arms in defence of the oppressed pilgrims in Palestine, incited others to declare themselves the patrons and avengers of injured innocence at home. When the final reduction of the Holy Land, under the dominion of infidels, put an end to these foreign expeditions, the latter was the only employment left for the activity and courage of adventurers. To check the insolence of overgrown oppressors ; to rescue the helpless from...
Page 8 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 57 - Perhaps the humanity which accompanies all the operations of war, the refinements of gallantry, and the point of honour, the three chief circumstances whkh distinguish modern from ancient manners, may be ascribed in a great measure to this institution, which has appeared whimsical to superficial observers, but by its effects has proved of great benefit to mankind.
Page 300 - Mos est civitatibus ultro ac viritim conferre principibus vel armentorum vel frugum, quod pro honore acceptum, etiam necessitatibus subvenit.
Page 191 - The Romans wrote their books either on parchment or on paper made of the Egyptian papyrus. The latter, being the cheapest, was of course the most commonly used. But after the Saracens conquered Egypt, in the seventh century, the communication between that country and the people settled in Italy or...
Page 57 - The wild exploits of those romantic knights who sallied forth in quest of adventures, are well known, and have been treated with proper ridicule. The political and permanent effects of the spirit of chivalry have been less observed.
Page 11 - His chief officers imitated the example of the sovereign, and, in distributing portions of their lands among their dependants, annexed the same condition to the grant. Thus a feudal kingdom resembled a military establishment rather than a civil institution. The victorious army, cantoned out in the country which it had seized, continued ranged under its proper officers and subordinate to military command. The names of a soldier and of a freeman were...
Page 50 - In ages of ignorance and credulity, the ministers of religion are the objects of superstitious veneration. When the barbarians who overran the Roman empire first embraced the Christian faith, they found the clergy in possession of considerable power; and they naturally transferred to those new guides the profound submission and reverence which they were accustomed to yield to the priests of that religion which they had forsaken. They deemed their persons to be equally sacred with their fraction;...
Page 193 - God; and who, in the last place, can repeat the Creed and the Lord's Prayer. Redeem then your souls from destruction, while you have the means in your power ; offer presents and tithes to churchmen ; come more frequently to church ; humbly implore the patronage of the saints ; for, if you observe these things, you may come with security in the day of retribution to the tribunal of the eternal Judge, and say, • Give to us, О Lord, for we have given unto thee.
Page 59 - The prespmption of men had added to the simple and instructive doctrines of Christianity the theories of a vain philosophy, that attempted to penetrate into mysteries, and to decide questions which the limited faculties of the human mind are unable to comprehend or to resolve.