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E D I T I O N D E L A P A C I F I C A T I O N
T H E W O R K S O F
VOLTAIRE A CONTEMPORARY VERSION
W ITH NOTES BY TOBIAS SMOLLETT, R EVISED AND MODERNIZED
NEW TRANSLATIONS BY W ILLIAM F. FLEMING, AND AN
INTRODUCTION BY OLIVER H. G. LEIGH
A CRITIQUE AND BIOGRAPHY
BY
T H E R T . H O N . J O H N M O R L E Y
F O R T Y - T H R E E V O L U M E S
ONE HUNDRED ANS SIXTY-EIGHT DESIGNS, COMPRISINGS REPRODUCTIONS
OF RARE OLD ENGRAVINGS, STEEL PLATES, PHOTOGRAVURES,
AND CURIOUS FAC-SIMILES
VOLUME XXIV
AKRON, OHIO
THE WERNER COMPANY
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the misfortune to encumber his head
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collections
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F& ncient and odern =istory
of our hemisphere,
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migrations, in
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than
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that those pretended descendants of 8orner made a
very bad use of the various advantages
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times fed on human esh *e must turn our eyes
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strained con"ectures
0he .ermans nearly resembled the .auls in their
morals : liNe them they sacriPced human victims
liNe them they decided their private disputes by
single combat the only diQerence
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of both sexes
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Introduction F#
0he sacN of 8onstantinople
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climes: and let us direct our Prst attention to a
people
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Its history,
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erides of abylon
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0he 8hinese &F
thinN
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la
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our common era, conMuered the
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bon@es : much less the
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tions of the most intelligent travellers, consist of a
standing army amounting to eight hundred thousand
men
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fortiPed places Other nations have fortiPed to
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to the most probable calculations, amounts to t
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&G ncient and odern =istory
is sold according to its
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0hough the 8hinese did not exercise their talents
in the invention of those destructive instruments,
they deserve no praise from that circumstance, as
they have maintained
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to turn the globe, on
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0he 8hinese &$
incapable to proceed further :
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them a tasN of the utmost diRculty very
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)dmiral nson;s 4oyage ) expresses great con-
tempt for 8hina, because the vulgar at 8anton
exerted all their artiPce to cheat the nglish ut
are
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they have seen the 8hinese peasants thro< them-
selves on their Nnees, to asN pardon of each other
for the stop of carriages,
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8O69>8I>3,
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+ecomte, and other missionaries aRrm, that the
8hinese had Nno
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this doctrine did not prevail, until happily established
after the incarnation by the +ord of life and death
It is supposed, that the men of letters among the
8hinese had no distinct idea of an immaterial .od
but it
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4ol &J-(
(J ncient and odern =istory
because they diQer from us in their system of meta-
physics *e should rather admire in them t
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o
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India, about one thousand years before 8hrist, and
infected all the eastern parts of sia 0his
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(G ncient and odern =istory
immortal, happens to die 0he 0artar princes never
speaN to him except on the bended Nnee =e is
supreme "udge of all points of controversy among
the lamas In a
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ecause the people are governed by their bon@es)
Indeed many of the learned themselves have fallen
into the error of materialism: but this has had
no eQect upon their morality 0hey thinN virtue is
so necessary to manNind, and so amiable in itself,
that there is no need for the Nno
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ing to the year of 8hrist G(G that as soon as he
reached the suburbs of the imperial city, the emperor
sent a colao to receive him, and caused the 8hristian
church to be built for his devotion 0his inscription
evidently appears to be one of those pious frauds
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in alabar, saying that 3t 0homas arrived in that
country in the Muality of a carpenter,
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arrive at India, or Indostan, a country not Muite so
extensive as 8hina, and better Nno
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almost every language of the Nno
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0he Indies JF
ignorant and their days
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duced in the gentlest climate but the origin of
almost everything is concealed from our Nno
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Indians being at all times a trading and industrious
people,
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It
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the face of these countries and this change extended
a great
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these our days Aou do not desire to examine in this
place
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overloaded
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second Boroaster, in the reign of arius, the son of
=ystaspes, did no more than bring this ancient relig-
ion to perfection It is in these maxims that
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0he name of 3atan,
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bitter enemy to the patriarch of 8onstantinople,
endeavored to gain over the tyrant 7hocas to his
interests by loading him
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7ersia, rabia, and ahomet J$
in every part of his character +ove, the necessary
conseMuence of a
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=e taught the rabians,
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al
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7ersia, rabia, and ahomet 5F
putes
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professors of false religion pretend to be)
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the era of his glory, as
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borhood of the 7ersian gulf =e had the boldness
to propose that they should embrace his religion
and
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conMuered, either to profess his religion or pay a
tribute,
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oppressed appear, and I am ready to maNe repara-
tion) man stood up, and demanded payment of
a sum that
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thirst after plunder, the same division of the spoil,
and every part of their conduct pointing to
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5G ncient and odern =istory
everything, and believed themselves created for
dominion ahomet;s last
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of lo< self-interest
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Omar, chosen his successor,
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yoNe of lexander 0hen fell that ancient religion
of the agi,
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ilies, or Ignicolae, remained at Ispahan, till the reign
of 3hah bbas,
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by 0ra"an, for "oining the 6ile and the 1ed 3ea,
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ussulman arms are al
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7ersia, rabia, and ahomet GF
founded the Ningdom of 8ordova 0he sultan of
gypt indeed shooN oQ the yoNe of the great caliph
of agdad and bd-er-1ahman, governor of 3pain,
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8haldaea, on the other side of the river uphrates
0he 0urNs say he laid the foundation of this city
the 7ersians assure us it
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If ever po
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7ersia, rabia, and ahomet G(
any of his predecessors,
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that the obliMuity of the ecliptic
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sensible and energic poetry
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that period 0here is not the least trace remaining
of any "argon that
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at 1ome, in the reign of 6ero and these
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implacable 0hey accused them of being the authors
of the conagration that destroyed one-half of 1ome
in the reign of 6ero It
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tianity and even if these cruel monuments relate
to 8hristians, to
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under this emperor some persons
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that he should Muestion them on the sub"ect ? >nhap-
pily, in this manner has history been
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severely chastised) 9rom this instance of drian;s
"ustice, some have fondly believed that he
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of their enemies, that, in several provinces they had
churches built upon the ruins of heathen temples
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erate enemy, persuaded iocletian to give orders for
demolishing the cathedral of 6icomedia,
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strengthen their interest, under this very iocletian,
and
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have continued to reign, that he might have had an
opportunity to destroy it in earnest, and if he
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Italy #(
soldiers, for
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share their suQerings certain it is, iocletian, in the
last t
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and people of 1ome
0he reign of 8onstantine is a glorious era for
religion,
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not be agreeable to that people It is very evident,
that the murder of +icinius, his brother-in-la
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one party has described as the most criminal, and the
other as the most virtuous of manNind? If
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circus, all the chiefs of the 9ranNs, and the prisoners
he tooN in an expedition to the 1hine : such
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*e Nno< very
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reMuired very great revenues 0he credit of the
ranN,
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8onstantine received and determined the mutual
complaints and accusations
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his ) issi ominici)
=is son thalaric regulated the elections of the
popes, as
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unpolished language, and their manners, that
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did not reside in that city,
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credit of the popes increased in the desolation of
the city 0hey often acted as its fathers and com-
forters, but al
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Italy (
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1O, so often sacNed by arbarians, abandoned
by the emperors, hard pressed by the +ombards, and
incapable of restoring the ancient republic, could
no longer pretend to greatness It
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7ope .regory III
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the 9rench, on pain of excommunication, to besto<
it on the Nings of any other race *hen this bishop,
an exile from his o
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tions
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of those times
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from heaven, to 7epin and his children,
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is it probable that he should cross the mountains
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ncient and odern =istory
source of the mistaNe uthors of a later date,
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of aQairs
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produced diQerent opinions, and every opinion
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0hey convince us that all the disputes of the .reeNs
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themselves in their turn, by the same artillery
0roubles of this nature
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still more agrant, he ordered all paintings to be
destroyed =e demolished the statues and repre-
sentations of !esus 8hrist, as
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had been received in many churches, and particu-
larly at 1ome
0his emperor
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the oath of allegiance,
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and become sovereigns of 1ome by a much "uster
title than that of many emperors, but it is neither
probable nor true that the 1omans,
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hended all those nations
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piness in the en"oyment of liberty 0hese
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$ ncient and odern =istory
industry no to
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families of the empire are no< said to be descended :
a man
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ties of the 8hristian religion
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ioo ncient and odern =istory
treated this noble eQort at liberty as a rebellion =e
demanded of the trembling 3axons that they should
deliver up their general and understanding they
had allo
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disposed to return to their o
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obtained on the frontiers of 3pain, his rear-guard
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geous resolution =e determined to surprise 1ome,
and maNe sure of the pope;s person but the bishop
8harlemagne F%(
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the 1oman mpire,
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commissioners to sit upon his trial,
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0his donation may be "ustly ranNed
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must only be understood as the domains
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empress so famous for her courage and her crimes,
io ncient and odern =istory
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formed by the courage and fortune of 8harlemagne
but nothing contributed so much as the absurd con-
duct of the descendants
=e had no capital, though ix-la-8hapelle
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that the cro
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but not so good as 0ra"an or ntoninus, to
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and so continued to be after the death of 8harle-
magne: his reign alone had a gleam of politeness,
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ted for t
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Orleans: they never besto
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8harlemagne FF5
agobert and if the Ning of the 9ranNs had three
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Muished the conMuering rabs, and repulsed them to
.ascony, received, ho
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in his o
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force, that is, large boats at the mouths of all the
great rivers of his empire efore his time, such
vessels
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ilan, +yons, ries, and 0ours 3teel
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to forty deniers of silver and these deniers, though
they
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of silver 0his pound
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F&% ncient and odern =istory
other one hundred and t
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made in the ancient history of a celebrated professor
in the university of 7aris, in the ecclesiastical history
of 9leury, and in almost all useful authors *hen
they
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than by the price of necessaries, and I Pnd these
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conMueror could not sign his o
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established to teach these notes, one at et@, and the
other at 3oissons 0hey
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.risons, and to
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Muences of religion upon the evils
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8harlemagne F&5
began at 8onstantinople: she caused 0arasius, her
secretary of state, a layman, to be erected patriarch
0here had been formerly some examples of laymen
thus raised to bishoprics,
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images
It is a circumstance confessed by all "udicious
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of 9rance,
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example in all the unfortunate disputes
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in the ast, the Prst 8ouncil of 6ice had added, that
he proceeded from the 9ather after
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the name of false decretals they are said to have
been collated by a 3paniard called Isidore ercator
or 7iscator, or 7eccator 0hey
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by these false decretals for eight
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0hey made this prince believe, that in the code
digested in the reign of 0heodosius, there
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the prerogative to "udge manNind
In the same manner as the bishops disputed this
authority
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head of a party against 8harles artel 0he hero
caused the monN to be beheaded an execution
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ncient and odern =istory
admission into the order than that of being obedi-
ent to the abbot 0hey even freMuently received
grants of uncultivated grounds,
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for a military life, nothing hindered him from con-
ducting them in person 0rue it is, in the year %(,
a parliament complained to 8harlemagne of the great
number of priests
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0hey adopted the barbarous custom practised by the
.reeN emperors, of burning out their eyes, and it
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sucNing the
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at Prst exacted of their canons that they should
confess to them t
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seasons of the year 0he commandments of the
8hurch,
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the gyptians and the .reeNs, and in almost all the
8harlemagne F(#
celebrations of their mysteries arcus urelius,
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3candinavia and enmarN,
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ascendant 3ome missionaries from .aul, indeed,
rudely instructed a small number of those islanders
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aQairs of the public in order to live the life of a
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4iguier, seven 3cabini or assessors, and a secretary,
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noblemen and plebeians of noblemen ab avo, or
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but the emperor, partly by money, and partly by
promises, found means to gain over one-half of the
Italian army 6egotiations
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obtaining mercy, to be arrested : these met
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One of the sources of +ouis;s misfortunes, and
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+ouis the ebonnaire F5F
I4 declaring on the side of the princes, his name
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excommunicaturus veniet, excommunicatus abibit)
) 0hat if he came to excommunicate, he himself
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cate the throne ethinNs, in reading the disasters
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troops to march in +ent, and had called a parliament
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sons, +ouis and 7epin,
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8harlemagne to the church of 1ome
0his conPrmation is liable to the same doubts as
the gifts
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*e should not then be surprised, that, a fe< years
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to the desolations of urope 0he provinces from
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continued to dispose of the cronder the reign of 8harles the 9at, emperor and
Ning of 9rance, the desolations of urope
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reduced, at length, to depend upon the charity of
the archbishop of ent@ for the common necessaries
of life It is evident, that in these times the natural
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factures of their o
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ships, and made descents almost at the same time on
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church of 3t-.ermain-des-7res 6either the people
nor their saints made the least defence, and yet must
the conMuered indulge themselves in the pitiful
satisfaction of imaginary miracles
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mans in this expedition, pushed the siege
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raised the siege of 7aris, to invest the city of 3ens,
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already established : but after t
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people
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and a Ningdom more than ever divided into petty
sovereignties, most of them occupied by anes
lmost every year produced a succession of ne<
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body of forces, gained a small advantage over the
enemy t this "uncture lfred, clothed in a shep-
herd;s tattered dress, ventured into the anish camp
as a player on the harp,
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to certain learned and enterprising men,
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occupations
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6 6I60= 860>1I3
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superiority gained by the ussulmans in 3pain I
F% ncient and odern =istory
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oors this second time 8ount !ulian found suRcient
reason, in being son-in-la< to *iti@a, to taNe up
arms against the reigning tyrant, and a bishop named
0ori@a "oined in the conspiracy
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ericN lost his life 3ome say that the 3aracens did
not observe their engagements
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liberty I cannot conceive
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him to govern sturias and some other neigh-
boring territories, on paying homage and tribute to
the ahometans and he even consented to furnish
one hundred beautiful young 1
3pain F (
time a custom among the rabs to exact such Nind
of tributes from their vassals, and to this day the
caravans, among the presents
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fter the death of this bd-er-1ahman, the emirs
or governors of the 3panish provinces aspired to
independency *e have already seen, under the
article of 8harlemagne, that one of them, named
Ibna +arabi, had the imprudence to call that con-
Mueror in to his assistance 6o< if there had really
been any 8hristian Ningdoms existing at that time in
3pain,
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tage for they laid siege to arcelona,
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the hundred damsels to the oors but
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on 9rance, they
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misunderstandings ended in nothing more than an
incursion of barbarians =o
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ter of a pontiQ
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formidable both at 1ome and at 8onstantinople the
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princes of the ahometan belief ut these princes
1I3
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the ahometans and sometimes conMuering, some-
times conMuered, it might, by being continually used
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*hile the frontier of the .reeN mpire
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8opronymus, dying indeed in their beds, but after a
bloody reign, as unhappy for the prince as for his
sub"ectsS 0he empress Irene, the Prst
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each other for having Nilled a heretic, repair to
the public prison to release from thence an oRcer,
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tude ichael the 3tammerer began his reign
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thousand of them
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rabs, on the other hand, pushed their conMuests
beyond rmenia, and into sia inor t length
ichael the younger, after a reign of cruelty and
misfortunes,
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its residence, are MuicNly repeopled by the continual
concourse from other neighboring nations 6either
the mechanic nor polite arts can be lost in a great
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secretly established the foundation of the pontiPcal
grandeur
0heir po
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"udges of Nings, and the popes claimed "udicial
authority over the bishops but nothing can give
us a clearer insight into the numberless disputes
about authority, the farrago of religious supersti-
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his mistress 4alrada *hat follo
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Italy and the 7opes &%F
sentence
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dered these examples freMuent
0he same 6icholas I excommunicated the second
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he gave him the sacrament at 1ome, made him s
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tus, excommunicated by the popes on the same occa-
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diQerences +ouis the ebonnaire had been the Prst
example of the popon the
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to revolutions 0he emperor ichael III, being
dissatisPed
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governor of ilan, and scarcely in fact a 8hristian,
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dignities aptisms, the eucharist, liturgy, diocese,
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dying, 7hotius had the sNill to get himself reinstated
by the emperor asilius 7ope !ohn 4III received
him into his communion, acNno
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this council, as
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eating- of eggs in +ent, the using of unleavened
bread in the eucharist, and several other customs
ut the grand point of division
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nelius 0acitus 0hey never mentioned the 1omans
but in the most contemptuous manner ishop +uit-
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but then good sense is found the same at all times,
and nothing has been more
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0he *estern mpire &F(
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6 O9 0= 6I60= 860>1A
0= empire of the *est existed no< only in name
rnould, rnold, or rnolf, a bastard son of 8arlo-
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namely, one o@o, or o@on, Ning of ries 6o< at
that time, 9ormosus, the insigniPcant bishop of
unhappy 1ome, dared not to refuse the sacred unc-
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but yet had no other privilege left them than that of
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and the rude forests of =ercynia should be made the
centre of the empire of 0itus and 0ra"an
It produced an eMual mixture of indignation and
contempt at 1ome,
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ll governments have their revolutions: there
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9O18,
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bishops of 1heims, +yons, eauvais, +angres, and
+aon laid claim to the royalties, or Nings; rights
0his assumed po
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efore the time of 8harlemagne, 0aRllo held the
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this duNedom
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ing plundered avaria, and then returned loaded
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tuted militias and some say that he
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O0=O,
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reputed provinces of the empire but the anes
MuicNly shooN oQ their yoNe
Otho
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Cueen .erberga to hold her court
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at the same time, against the 3aracens and =un-
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nor yet under the Nings of +ombardy, nor during the
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strucN oQ by the hangman, three of the Pngers of
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all three of them notorious for their amours, bore
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made a pope,
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other than her chaplain
0he 7apacy before Otho &
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named Octavian 3porco, by the great interest his
family had in 1ome,
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respected the papal function, because they aspired
to that dignity themselves: in short, the public
opinion held the place sacred, ho
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signed by seven .erman bishops, Pve counts, t
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the devil t
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council to council, +eo 4III
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did not yield till they
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Otho II marches to 1ome against his father
*hat a governmentS *hat an empireS nd
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deplorable calamities, nor more horrid barbarities
ut the villainies and misfortunes of these popes
are as obscure as themselves 0hese bloody trage-
dies
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them all to be put to the s
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employed in .ermany, a party
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pontiPcate of this enedict I^8 there
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called the 3alic, came to 1ome
6ever did any emperor exercise a fuller author-
ity =e banished .regory 4I and named for pope
one 3uiger, his chancellor, bishop of amberg,
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this authority, the popes
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some time, from a yoNe,
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deserts, and the country depopulated by long fam-
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One
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*hen 9rance, Italy, and .ermany,
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they
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0he senates of those to
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the bbot, on account of the abbeys of 3t enis,
3t artin de 0ours, and 3t-.ermain-des-7res, and
a number of others
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assisted by prudence
*hile +ouis, this last Ning of the 8harlemagne
blood,
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9rance &J#
thus raised to the throne by his peers, did not ho1I3
9168 dismembered, lay languishing in her ob-
scure maladies, from the reign of 8harles the .ross,
to that of 7hilip I, great grandson of =ugh 8apet
that is, for nearly t
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under an interdict by the pope,
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9rance &J$
ever lo< human reason might have been sunN in
those times, one
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him, if he did not clear himself, before his nuncios,
of a charge of simony brought against him and
another pope did actually excommunicate him
7hilip had taNen a disliNe to his
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shall Pnd him preaching the crusade
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determined upon this marriage through the fear
of having a church dispute upon his hands Of all
the superstitions of those times, there
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emperors of the house of 3uabia and the popes, the
houses of n"ou and ragon, and those of ustria
and 9rance
&5& ncient and odern =istory
8=701 DDD
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6O16 .60+6
*=6 8harlemagne tooN the name of emperor, that
title gave him nothing more than
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them the sovereignty of those countries 3everal
private lords shared the spoils of them
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to the metropolitan of 8onstantinople, and the others
to him of 1ome 0he manners tooN a tincture from
this diversity of people, governments, and religions,
and the natural genius of the inhabitants no longer
darted a single ray It no longer appeared liNe the
place
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0his handful of foreigners reproached the besieged
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and enlisted sometimes in the service of the .reeN
emperors, sometimes in that of the princes of the
country, and sometimes in that of the pope: it
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victory in favor of the .reeNs, and 3icily
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sovereign of pulia in his stead, in F%JG upon
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been so soon rent from it, and become a Pef to the
see of 1ome, at a time
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+eo ID, after having excommunicated them, tooN
it in his head to march against them, at the head
of an army,
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prisoner, into that very to
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6aples and 3icily &5$
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pendent of the t
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lords uNe 1obert having received a standard
from the pope, and become the champion of that
church
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bard race
In F%##, .regory 4I+,
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6orman gentlemen
*e must not be surprised at seeing so many Ning-
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ert, during these troubles,
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0= design of maNing the conMuest of the .reeN
mpire vanished at the death of 1obert ut his
family secured their establishments in Italy 8ount
1oger, his brother, remained master of 3icily uNe
1oger, his son, continued in possession of almost
all the country no< called by the name of the Ning-
dom of 6aples and ohemond, his other son,
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0he popes had assumed a right of sending legates
to all the states of 8hristendom,
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6o sooner had 8ount 1oger conMuered 3icily
from the ahometans and .reeNs, and settled the
+atin 8hurch in that island, than 7ope >rban II
sent a legate thither 0his country, indeed, seemed
of all others, to stand the most in need of a legate
to regulate the hierarchy, or church government,
among a people, of
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in the island of 3icily investing them
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did not then belong to him, could not give a name
3icily &G#
to the Ningdom 0his city had al
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the popes and the Nings,
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8onMuest of ngland &G$
and the arts began to revive a little in these beautiful
provinces
=aving no< seen in
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more considerable than that of the t
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only by performing great acts of cruelty, reduced
both enmarN and ngland under his sub"ection
in F%F# 0he native nglish
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throne of 9rance,
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that if he did it
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J ncient and odern =istory
pounds of the then nglish sterling money,
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Pfty-three years old 6o
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Ningdom to the 8hurch of 1ome, amounting to about
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the father of that c@ar !araslau of
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renounced 8hristianity in F%F( and the inhabi-
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"udgment of the rest of the 6orth
0he empire of 8onstantinople
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0he 3
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selves masters of it 0he pope exacted a tribute
from that island, not only on account of being for-
merly in possession of some patrimonies there, but
as pretending to be lord paramount of all the Ning-
doms conMuered from the inPdels 0he .enoese
paid this tribute at the beginning of the eleventh cen-
tury, but soon after they freed themselves from
it under the pontiPcate of +ucius II t length,
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of thirty years it
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urope &F
of the ninth century that these islanders, retiring
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matia, 3palatro, 1agusa, and 6aren@a 0heir doge,
about the middle of the ninth century, tooN the title
of duNe of almatia ut the republic
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37I6
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oorish Ning
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betray each other, and freMuently even made alliances
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them 0he title of emperor every
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brothers and sisters of the inheritance left them by
their father but 3ancho being murdered in one of
&G ncient and odern =istory
these un"ust expeditions, his brothers entered again
into the possession of their estates in F%#(
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girding on a scimitar 0his
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8id overcame several petty oorish Nings, and, hav-
ing at last fortiPed himself in the city of lca@ar,
he there erected a little sovereignty
fter
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& ncient and odern =istory
princes
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ric of 0oledo and 7ope .regory 4II, at the Ning;s
reMuest, made him prince of 3pain 0he 8hurch
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of the 8id, in marrying Baid, daughter of enadat,
the ne< oorish Ning of ndalusia,
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divided among themselves
*hile 3pain
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=13I3 seem to be the fruit of a little Nno
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in F%&,
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ll that
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1eligion and 3uperstition &$(
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in ngland, they believed that they only ate and
dranN the body and blood of 8hrist spiritually nd
in the odleian library there is a homily,
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in such a manner as to leave room at least to doubt,
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1eligion and 3uperstition &$5
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exercised human credulity It is pretended that the
emperor Otho III put his
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aimbourg should have considered that this fable
is related by authors
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idier, abbot of onte 8assino, and several other
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credit to it
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tion to the 1oman issal, resolved that they should
maNe the trial of Pre ll the la