The Holy Roman Empire

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Macmillan, 1904 - 575 Seiten

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Seite 276 - Maximus ille es, unus qui nobis cunctando restituis rem. excudent alii spirantia mollius aera (credo equidem), vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent : 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (hae tibi erunt artes), pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Seite 112 - He shall judge the poor of the people, He shall save the children of the needy, And shall break in pieces the oppressor. 5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, Throughout all generations.
Seite 20 - Romanesque suo de nomine dicet. his ego nee metas rerum nee tempora pono: imperium sine fine dedi.
Seite 397 - His foes' derision, and his subjects' blame, And steals to death from anguish and from shame.
Seite 274 - With Henry the Seventh ends the history of the Empire in Italy, and Dante's book is an epitaph instead of a prophecy.
Seite 168 - It needed not this exaggeration to enhance the significance of that scene, even more full of meaning for the future than it was solemn and affecting to the Venetian crowd that thronged the church and the piazza. For it was the renunciation by the mightiest prince of his time of the project to which his life had been devoted : it was the abandonment by the secular power of a contest in which it had twice been vanquished, and which it could not renew under more favourable conditions.
Seite 180 - Barbarossa lies amid his knights in an enchanted sleep, waiting the hour when the ravens shall cease to hover round the peak and the pear-tree blossom in the valley, to descend with his Crusaders and bring back to Germany the golden age...
Seite 278 - Caesar, therefore, shew towards Peter the reverence wherewith a firstborn son honours his father, that, being illumined by the light of his paternal favour, he may the more excellently shine forth upon the whole world, to the rule of which he has been appointed by Him alone who is of all things, both spiritual and temporal, the King and Governor.
Seite 19 - Athaulfus, quod quondam Caesar Augustus, at ubi multa experientia probavisset neque Gothos ullo modo parere legibus posse propter effrenatam barbariem neque reipublicae interdici leges oportere, sine quibus respublica non est respublica, elegisse...
Seite 567 - HISTORY PLANNED BY THE LATE LORD ACTON, LL.D. Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge EDITED BY AW WARD, Litt.D., GW PROTHERO, Litt.D. and STANLEY LEATHES, MA To be Complete in Twelve Volumes, Royal 8vo, of which it is hoped that two can be issued in each year. These volumes will appear in two Series beginning respectively with VOL. I. (The Renaissance) and VOL. VII. (The United States) THE SCOPE OF THE WORK AS PROJECTED WILL INCLUDE I. The Renaissance II. The Reformation...

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