the empire of glass

... murdered." Around them, the Tavern of St Theodore and of the Crocodile was empty of patrons. Its buttressed timbers, and the smell of damp wood that underlay the smell of spilled wine, reminded Speroni of the ... perhaps. The scrabbling of their claws kept him awake at night as they ran across the floor, scuttled behind the walls and scrabbled between the joists of the ceiling. Rats were the bane of Venice. ... sword as he did so. The rest of the youths rushed forward to help. Galileo took advantage of the distraction to take a couple of steps backwards, out of the nominal circle of the fight. Time to...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... outbreak of the Great War was to them a complete surprise, as it was also to the greater part of the representatives of the people in the government of the United States and in the government of the ... Australia, Union of South Africa and New Zealand, who between them have only 13% — almost the total white population of 68,000,000 of the Empire — of the people of the British Empire, from the utterly ... deprecated the diplomatic action of the other Powers in the affairs of the Ottoman Empire. " Russia then asked what was the drift of England's policy; what were her ideas in the matter?...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 11:20

... three years of age. By the will of the dying monarch, the regency, during the minority of the child, was placed in the hands of the youthful mother, the princess Hélène. The brothers of Vassili ... barbarism. They enriched the libraries by the books which they had rescued from the barbarism of the Turks, and contributed much to the eclat of the court of Moscow by the introduction of the pompous ... Upon the Roman Empire Irruption of the Alains Conquests of Trajan The Gothic invasion, The Huns their Character and Aspect The Devastations of Attila The Avars Results of Comminglings of these...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:20

... Bohemia The Trap of the Monks Invasion of the Turks Their Defeat Coalition with Sigismond Sale of Transylvania Rule of Basta The Empire captured and recaptured Devastation of the Country Treatment of ... place them in possession of the whole of Hungary, and then, in their alliance they could defy all the power of the emperor, and penetrate even the very heart of his hereditary dominions of Austria. ... woes, and the land was filled with the dying and the dead. The Turks marched to the aid of Botskoi to expel the Austrians. Even the sway of the Mussulman was preferable to that of the bigoted...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:20

... food stocks, and the mood of the garrison. The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention of the nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation of the town by emphasizing the danger that ... than the question of a possible dissolution is the prospect of the early relief of Mafeking. The nerves of the public, which now takes the war so quietly – possibly, indeed, in the opinion of superficial observers ... notions of Boer inhumanity toward Africans, the pro-war argument of the ‘‘negrophilists.’’ The other cat- egory into which mentions of Africans fall is praise of the loyalty of the Cape Boys and the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... the advantage of erecting the standard of the cross, the emulation of his successor assumed the merit of subduing the Arian heresy, and of abolishing the worship of idols in the Roman world. Theodosius ... Egypt; and the Part II. 45 visions, which attested the presence, or at least the protection, of the Mother of God. ^32 The pulpit of the Anastasia was the scene of the labors and triumphs of Gregory ... over the soul and body of the guilty. The decrees of the council of Constantinople had ascertained the true standard of the faith; and the ecclesiastics, who governed the conscience of Theodosius,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... heads of the emperor and empress of the East. But the usual honors which the severity of Roman manners had allowed to the wives of princes, could not satisfy either the ambition of Theodora or the fondness ... deprived of his powers and his honors. He lost the superintendence of the supply and manufacture of arms; the uncontrolled charge of the public posts; the levying of the troops; the command of the ... as the last male offspring of the line of Amali, by the short-lived marriage of his mother Amalasuntha with a royal fugitive of the same blood. ^105 In the presence of the dying monarch, the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... tempted by the disorders of Italy, the nakedness of Rome, and the unwarlike profession of her new chief. On the first edicts of the emperor, they declared themselves the champions of the holy images: ... 379-382.) Of these the Franciscan Pagi is the most disposed to make the patrician a lieutenant of the church, rather than of the empire. ] [Footnote 59: The papal advocates can soften the symbolic ... the exhortation of Gregory himself, in separating the personal guilt of Leo from the general cause of the Roman empire. ^49 The Greeks were less mindful of the service, than the Lombards of the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... interdict the churches of the Roman rite. ^13 The two wives of Manuel Comnenus ^14 were of the race of the Franks: the first, a sister-in-law of the emperor Conrad; the second, a daughter of the prince ... pursuit, the event of which was in the hands of the Almighty. Their first offence, the attack of Zara, had been severely punished by the reproach of their conscience and the censures of the pope; ... scandal in the West.] The honor of the monarchy and the safety of the capital were deeply wounded by the revolt of the Bulgarians and Walachians. Since the victory of the second Basil, they had...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... point. The first portion consists of the conclusion of the text of Fernao Nuniz; the second of the covering letter written by the person who sent the originals to Europe; the third of the beginning ... either side of the road, leading thence to the capital. The fourth line of wall, with a strong gateway, is to be seen on the south of the present village of Malpanagudi, where several remains of ... audience. The ambassador then laid before the king all the arguments in favour of the Bijapur plan. "He represented to him that during the times of the Bhamenee princes, when the whole strength of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... from the borders of Berar to the banks of the Ganges. On one side they were checked by the Nizam and Haidar, on the other by Shujaa-ud-daula, the young ruler of Audh. Between these limits they ... up from the English merchants of Calcutta at fabulous prices; not fighting over again the battle of Lakhairi, but rather discussing the relative merits of the slopes of the Alps and the cliffs of the ... administrators of the three Subahs, with the further grant of the Benares and Ghazipur sarkars as fiefs of the Empire. The remainder of the Subah of Allahabad was secured to the Emperor with a pecuniary...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... each of which takes up the question of the category of mission as part of the stan- dard vocabulary of scholarly discourse about Christian origins and the his- tory of other religious groups in the ... evaluation of the significance of the difference between these concerns and practices and those of the prophetic religions” of Judaism and Christianity; if only because of the psychological theory of ... representation of the early Christian “mission to the Jews,” which is chapter 3 of The Rise of Chris- tianity. (The depiction of Judaism before Christianity, as discussed in the first chapter of the book,...

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