... better right to the throne of Wessex than BEORTRIC, another Saxon prince who was at the head of that kingdom, and who married EDBURGA, the daughter of OFFA, king of another of the seven kingdoms.This ... with grass, and of mounds thatare the burial-places of heaps of Britons, are to be seen in almost all parts of the country. Across the bleakmoors of Northumberland, the wall of SEVERUS, overrun ... clashing of music, and strewing of flowers.The reign of King Henry the Second began well. The King had great possessions, and (what with his ownrights, and what with those of his wife) was lord of...
... OxfordProfessor Carolyn Brown, Department of History, Rutgers UniversityProfessor Christopher Clapham, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge UniversityProfessor Michael Gomez, Department of History, ... Iliffe was Professor of African History at the University of Cambridge and is aFellow of St. John’s College. He is the author of several books on Africa, includingAmodern historyof Tanganyika ... York UniversityProfessor David Robinson, Department of History, Michigan State UniversityProfessor Leonardo A. Villalon, Center for African Studies, University of FloridaA list of books in this...
... just-war doctrine of the Middle Ages. He then traces the decline of this conception of war in favour of a view of war as an instrument of statecraft, culmina-ting in the evolution of what became ... feature of war is that it is rule-governed.There are a number of senses in which this is so. One of these, notedabove, was the requirement of subordination of individual prowess tothe needs of ... enemies being one of the fore-most, if mundane, tasks of the philosopher-kings. This matter -of- factacceptance of the constancy of warfare goes far to explain why eventhinkers as profound as Plato...
... anticipation of the future basedon specific understanding of the historical branches of thesciences of human action. . . . What thymology achieves isthe elaboration of a catalogue of human traits. ... Understand-ing deals with judgments of value, with the choice of endsand of the means resorted to for the attainment of theseends, and with the valuation of the outcome of actions per-formed.21Furthermore, ... Mises’swords, “are the starting point of a specific mode of reflection, of the specific understanding of the historical sciences of humanaction.” Equipped with the method of “specific understand-ing,”...
... it; and of the difficulty of subduing it.—Usefulness also of the contemplation of this subject. I scarcely know of any subject, the contemplation of which is more pleasing, than that of the ... Christianity. Of the evils removed by Christianity one of the greatest is the Slave Trade.—The joy we ought to feel on its abolition from a contemplation of the nature of it; and of the extent of it; ... miles CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE. No subject more pleasing than that of the removal of evils.—Evils have existed almost from the beginning of the world; but there...
... cut off Alban's headand with a second the head of the soldier. At the same moment, we are told, the captain lost his sight andremained blind for the rest of his life.This is the story of ... as it rolled upward, heard the crackle of theflames, the shrieks of the dying, the shouts of victory. England was saved.Then suddenly he was awakened out of his dream by a blow to his shoulder, ... soon as Sweyn, King of Denmark, heard of the cruel murder, he determined toavenge his sister's death. Gathering a great company of soldiers and a most wonderful fleet of ships, he set sailfor...
... inpyramids like those of the old Memphite kings. These facts, of the situation of Itht-taui, of their burial in thesouthern an ex of the old necropolis of Memphis, and of the fori of their tombs (the ... Babylonian art, of thetime of the patesis of Shirpurla or the Kings Shargani-shar-ali and Narâm-Sin. One of the best known relics of the early art of Babylonia is the famous "Stele of Vultures" ... disappeared, leaving us but a piece out of thecentre, with part of the records of only six kings before Snefru. Of these six the name of only one, Neneter, of the lid Dynasty, whose name is also...
... of the want of ear, or the want of command of language, whichmakes Wyatt's versification frequently disgusting. Surrey has even no small mastery of what may be calledthe architecture of ... extent the historyof curiosities of literature of tentative and imperfect efforts, scarcely resulting in anyreal vernacular style at all. It is, however, emphatically the Period of Origins of modern ... anddefinite period, whether of literary or of any other history. That difficulty lies in the discussion and decision of the question of origins in the allotment of sufficient, and not more than...
... aruler. Both of these measuring tools can be applied to samples of different kinds of paper.Instructions for Students:1. To find the caliper of paper, measure the thickness of a stack of the paper ... tracing the history of paper from pre-historic times to the present. A collection of important dates willfollow this section.Another way to get students involved in the historyof papermaking ... thickness of a single sheet of paper. Paper that is used in printingand writing should have uniformcaliper. The caliper of each page of yourbook should be the same as the rest.The caliper of each...
... College Histories of Art. A HISTORYOF PAINTING. BY JOHN C. VAN DYKE, L.H.D. Professor of the Historyof Art in Rutgers College, and Author of “Principles of Art,” “Art for Art’s ... Wat End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Text-Book of the Historyof Architecture, by Alfred D. F. Hamlin *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORYOF ARCHITECTURE *** ... each style growing out of that A Historyof Sculpture. BY ALLAN MARQUAND, Ph.D., L.H.D. AND ARTHUR L. FROTHINGHAM, Jr., Ph.D. Professors of Archæology and the Historyof Art in Princeton...
... formed that of the Tugendbund, or Friends of Virtue. About the end of May, 1809, three enterprises—those of Katt, Dörnberg, and Schill—had already given proofs of its existence. That of Duke William ... Mojaisk—Alarming news of the Russian army—View of the field of Borodino VIII. —Abandonment of the wounded in the Abbey of Kolotskoi—Horrible conduct of the suttlers—Massacre of 2000 Russian prisoners—Arrival ... 1825. IV. —Clamours of the Russians against Barclay—Kutusof sent to supersede him—Great merit of Barclay's plan of retreat V. —Near prospect of a battle—Character of Kutusof—Sanguinary and...
... willing to assume the conduct of the enterprise. They acquiesced in thechoice of a stranger, of Boniface marquis of Montferrat, descended of a race of heroes, and himself of conspicuous fame in the ... concatenation of events, the sword of our English Richardbestowed that kingdom on the house of Lusignan, a rich compensation for the loss of Jerusalem. [Footnote 18:The historyof the reign of Isaac ... of Acre, and the departure of Philip,the king of England led the crusaders to the recovery of the sea-coast; and the cities of Caesarea and Jaffawere added to the fragments of the kingdom of...
... DISCIPLINE OF THE HISTORYOF DOGMA.§ 1. The Idea and Task of the Historyof Dogma.1. The Historyof Dogma is a discipline of general Church History, which has for its object the dogmas of theChurch. ... contents of the Christian religion as a knowledge of God, of the world, and of the sacred history under the aspect of a proof of the truth. But (2) they have also emerged at a definite stage of the history ... independentprovince of Church history. As to the division of the historyof dogma, it consists of two main parts. The first has to describe the origin of dogma, that is, of the Apostolic Catholic system of doctrine...
... Darmstadt, and along train of sovereign princes, sprung from the illustrious houses of Brunswick, of Saxony, of Holstein, and of Nassau. The Marquess of Gastanaga, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, ... rather try the chance of arms than consent that Irish Papists should becapable of holding civil and military offices, of exercising liberal professions, and of becoming members of municipal corporations. ... of the Parliament which James had held at the Kings Innscould not hear unmoved of the downfall of a wealthy established Church, of the flight of a splendidaristocracy, of the confiscation of...