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Alarik Alps Ampère ancient Annal apud Aquitain army Ataulf Austrasia authority barbarians barbaric battle Bell bishops brother Brunahilda Burgunds Cæs Cæsar called century chief Chlodwig Chlother Christian Chron Church civil Comp conquest Constantine death dominion Duke East Ebroin ecclesiastical Einhard emperor empire Epist faith father Fauriel forces France Frankish Franks Fredegher Fredegunda G. C. Lewis Gall Gallic Gaul Germans Gonthramn Goths Greek Greg Hilperik Hist Huns Ibid imperial Italy Karl Karl's Keltic Kelts king kingdom Kymri Latin laws legions leudes Livy Loire Lombards Ludwig Majorian Merowig monarch nations native Neustria nobles pagan Paris passim peace Petigny Pippin political Pope possession priests provinces race reign religion religious revolt Rhine Rhone Roman Rome Salic law Saxons says Sighebert slaves Spain Stilicho Strabo Tacitus Teutonic Theodorik Theuderik Thierry tion Trèves tribes Turon victory Waifer warriors weregild whole Wisigoths
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Page 205 - Coleridge ^- are what suns and winds and waters make us; The mountains are our sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties; as the feet Of fabled fairies when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day.
Page 493 - Pro Deo amur et pro christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di in avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo, et in adjudha et in cadhuna cosa, si cum om per dreit son fradra salvar dist, in o quid il mi altresi fazet ; et ab Ludher nul plaid nunquam prindrai , qui, meon vol, cist meon fradre Karle in damno sit.
Page 493 - Karlus meos sendra de suo part non lo stanit, si io returnar non l'int pois, ne io ne neuls cui eo returnar int pois, in nulla aiudha contra Lodhuwig nun li in er.
Page 493 - Godes minna ind in thes christianes folches ind unser bedhero gehaltnissi, fon thesemo dage frammordes, so fram so mir Got geuuizci indi mahd furgibit, so...
Page 205 - But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties; as the feet Of fabled faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day. Then Justice, called the eternal one above, Is more inconstant than the buoyant form That bursts into existence from the froth Of ever-varying ocean : what is best Then becomes worst; what loveliest, most deformed.
Page 327 - Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 465 - To ascertain on what occasions and in what places the ecclesiastics and the laity seek, in the manner stated, to impede each other in the exercise of their respective functions. To inquire and discuss up to what point a bishop or an abbot is justified in interfering in secular affairs, and a count or other layman with ecclesiastical affairs. To interrogate them closely on the meaning of those words of the Apostle : ' No man that warreth for the law, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life.
Page 210 - For some considerable (it cannot but be an '•"""•'• undefinable) part of the three first centuries, the Church of Rome, and most, if not all the churches of the West, were, if we may so speak, Greek religious colonies.
Page 114 - The walls covered with the decrees of the legislature, engraved on bronze, or sculptured on marble ; the triumphal arches, crowned by the statues of the princes who governed the province from the distant Quirinal ; the tesselated floor, pictured with the mythology of the State, whose sovereign was its pontiff — all contributed to act upon the feelings of the people, and to impress them with respect and submission. The conquered shared in the fame, and were exalted by the splendour of the victors."...
Page 466 - ... Pierre. (Art. 8.) As to the deposition of the pretended bishop Gerbod. (Art. 53.) Charlemagne procures the assent of the assembly of bishops to the pope's license, authorizing him to retain about his person bishop Hildebold as his minister of ecclesiastical affairs. (Art. 54.) He recommends Alcuin to the good wishes and prayers of the assembly. There is obviously nothing legislative here. Thus, at first glance, on the most simple examination of the nature of these various acts, and without entering...