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Alarik Alps ancient Annal apud Aquitain army Ataulf Austrasia authority barbarians barbaric battle Bell bishops Bretons brother Burgunds Cæs Cæsar called century chief Chlodwig Chlother Christian Chron Church cities civil clans Comp conquest Constantine death Diocletian dominion Druids East Einhard emperors empire Epist faith Fauriel Florus force France Frankish Franks Fredegunda G. C. Lewis Gall Gallic Gaul Germans Goths Gratian Greek Greg Hilperik Iberians Ibid Illyria imperial Italy Julian Karl Keltic Kelts king Kymri labor land Latin laws legions leudes Livy Loire Majorian Merowig military nations native Neustria Niebuhr nobles pagan Paris passim peace Petigny Pippin political Pope possessed priests provinces race reign religion revolt Rhine Rhone Roman Rome Salic law Saxons says Sighebert slaves Spain spirit Stilicho Strabo Tacitus Teutonic Theodorik Theuderik Thierry Hist tion Trèves tribes Turon victory warriors weregild West whole Wisigoths
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Page 493 - Karlo iurat, conservat, et Karlus meos sendra de suo part non los tanit, si io returnar non Tint pois: ne io ne neuls, cui eo returnar int pois, in nulla aiudha contra Lodhuuig nun li iv er.
Page 204 - We 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 faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day. Then Justice...
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 375 - Creasy to select for military description those few battles of which, in the words of Hnllam, ' a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes.
Page 493 - Got geuuizci indi mahd furgibit, so haldih thesan minan bruodher, soso man mit rehtu sinan bruher seal, in thiu thaz er mig so sama duo, indi mit Ludheren in nohheiniu thing ne gegango, the, minan uuillon, imo ce scadhen uuerdhen.
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 465 - To ask them farther, whether he is to be considered as having renounced the world whom we see laboring, day by day, by all sorts of means, to augment his possessions ; now making use, for this purpose, of menaces of eternal flames, now of promises of eternal beatitude...
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.