The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V.W. Whitestone, 1777 - Europe |
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... respect ; that exemption from and adopt- civil jurifdiction was courted as a privilege , and conferred as a reward . It is not furprising , that even to rude people , the maxims of the canon law fhould appear more equal and just than ...
... respect ; that exemption from and adopt- civil jurifdiction was courted as a privilege , and conferred as a reward . It is not furprising , that even to rude people , the maxims of the canon law fhould appear more equal and just than ...
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... respect in life , and advanced such as acquired it to a rank of no inconfiderable eminence . Al- lured by all these advantages , an incredible number of ftudents reforted to those new feats of learning , and crowded with eagerness into ...
... respect in life , and advanced such as acquired it to a rank of no inconfiderable eminence . Al- lured by all these advantages , an incredible number of ftudents reforted to those new feats of learning , and crowded with eagerness into ...
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... respect to them were written in that language . To have treated of any impor- tant fubject in a modern language , would have been deemed a degradation of it . This con- fined science within a narrow circle . The learn- ed alone were ...
... respect to them were written in that language . To have treated of any impor- tant fubject in a modern language , would have been deemed a degradation of it . This con- fined science within a narrow circle . The learn- ed alone were ...
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... respect to them . They became the car- riers , the manufacturers , and the bankers of all Europe . Then by the Hanfe- atick . WHILE the Italians , in the fouth of Europe , means of cultivated trade with fuch induftry and fuccefs , the ...
... respect to them . They became the car- riers , the manufacturers , and the bankers of all Europe . Then by the Hanfe- atick . WHILE the Italians , in the fouth of Europe , means of cultivated trade with fuch induftry and fuccefs , the ...
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... respect of their rapid and extenfive progrefs during the laft and prefent age , seems vaft , when we compare it with the ftate of both in Europe previous to the twelfth century . It did not fail of producing great ef- fects . Commerce ...
... respect of their rapid and extenfive progrefs during the laft and prefent age , seems vaft , when we compare it with the ftate of both in Europe previous to the twelfth century . It did not fail of producing great ef- fects . Commerce ...
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Page 22 - ... monk, who conceived the idea of leading all the forces of Christendom against the infidels, and of driving them out of the Holy Land by violence, was sufficient to give a beginning to that wild enterprise.
Page 120 - 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.
Page 11 - Very faint vestiges of the Roman policy, jurisprudence, arts, or literature remained. New forms of government, new laws, new manners, new dresses, new languages, and new names of men and countries, were every where introduced.
Page 70 - 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.
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Page 298 - It was a matter of doubt and dispute (saith the historian) whether the sons of a son ought to be reckoned among the children of the family, and succeed equally with their uncles, if their father happened to die while their grandfather was alive.
Page 239 - ALL the religious maxims and practices of the dark ages are a proof of this. I shall produce one remarkable testimony in confirmation of it, from an author canonized by the church of Rome, St. Eloy, or Egidius, bishop of Noyon, in the seventh century.