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Page 7 - Antenor potuit mediis elapsus Achivis Illyricos penetrare sinus atque intima tutus regna Liburnorum et fontem superare Timavi, unde per ora novem vasto cum murmure montis 245 it mare proruptum et pelago premit arva sonanti.
Page 17 - A few in fear, Flying away from him whose boast it was,* That the grass grew not where his horse had trod, Gave birth to VENICE.
Page xx - The Fall of Constantinople. Being the Story of the Fourth Crusade. By EDWIN PEARS, LL.B.
Page 293 - Et por ce que lengue franceise cort parmi le monde, et est la plus delitable a lire et a oir que nule autre...
Page 380 - He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and exalted the humble and meek.
Page 370 - Those who had never seen it did not believe that there could be so rich a city in the whole world. When they...
Page 365 - Quod si forsan ea vobis contingeret denegari, cum tamen vos devoveritis ad commune obsequium Crucifixi, cujus est terra et plenitude ejus, orbis terrarum et universi qui habitant in ea, posset utique non absurdum videri ad similitudinem imperatoris terrae, de quo cautum est in jure civili quod si ejus exercitus indiguerit alimentis, ea possit accipere undecunque, possitis et vos cum timore Domini, sub satisfaciendi proposito, ad necessitatem tantum ea sine personarum accipere laesione.
Page 364 - E tint sei al cunseil as bachelers, si lur dist. (Ilm/. p. a83.) Et locutus est eis secundum consilium juvenum , dicens. Respundi Saûl : Ne te poz pas a lui cupler, kar tu es vadlez, e il est un merveillus bers de sa bachelerie.
Page 365 - Provideatis autem prudenter et caute. ut, si forte Veneti voluerint occasiones aliquas invenire, quod exercitus dissolvatur, multa pro tempore dissimulare ac tolerare curetis, donec ad locum perveneritis destinatum, ubi, opportunitate accepta, eorum, ut expedit malitiam comprimatis
Page 108 - Hunc etenim Simeonem emiargon, id est semigrecum , esse aiebant, eo quod a puericia Bizantii Demostenis rhetoricam Aristotelisque silogismos didicerit.
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| Title | The Early History of Venice: From the Foundation to the Conquest of Constantinople, A.D. 1204 The Early History of Venice: From the Foundation to the Conquest of Constantinople, A.D. 1204, Francis Cotterell Hodgson |
| Author | Francis Cotterell Hodgson |
| Publisher | G. Allen, 1901 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Sep 11, 2007 |
| Length | 473 pages |
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