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... Empire . $ 2. Invasion of Clovis . 3. The MEROVINGIANS , or first Race of French Kings . Accession of Pepin . § 4. The CARLOVINGIANS . State of Italy . § 5. Charlemagne . His Reigu . § 6. His Coronation as Emperor . 7. His Character ...
... Empire . $ 2. Invasion of Clovis . 3. The MEROVINGIANS , or first Race of French Kings . Accession of Pepin . § 4. The CARLOVINGIANS . State of Italy . § 5. Charlemagne . His Reigu . § 6. His Coronation as Emperor . 7. His Character ...
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... empire ; it assured the preponderance of Teutonic over Roman Gaul . Pepin fixed his residence at Cologne , and his ... empires upon a single cast , and risk a general bat- tle with invaders , whose greater peril is in delay ? Was not ...
... empire ; it assured the preponderance of Teutonic over Roman Gaul . Pepin fixed his residence at Cologne , and his ... empires upon a single cast , and risk a general bat- tle with invaders , whose greater peril is in delay ? Was not ...
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... empire had concealed the extent of its decline . That charm was now broken ; and the Lombard kingdom , which had hitherto appeared the only competitor in the lists , proved to have lost its own energy in awaiting the occasion for its ...
... empire had concealed the extent of its decline . That charm was now broken ; and the Lombard kingdom , which had hitherto appeared the only competitor in the lists , proved to have lost its own energy in awaiting the occasion for its ...
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... empire against the Sclavonians of Bohemia and Huns or Avars of Pannonia , though obtained with less cost , were hardly less eminent . In all his wars the newly conquered nations , or those whom fear had made dependent allies , were ...
... empire against the Sclavonians of Bohemia and Huns or Avars of Pannonia , though obtained with less cost , were hardly less eminent . In all his wars the newly conquered nations , or those whom fear had made dependent allies , were ...
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... empire . A strong sympathy for intellectual excellence was the leading characteristic of Charlemagne , and this undoubtedly biased him in the chief political error of his conduct - that of encouraging the power and pretensions of the ...
... empire . A strong sympathy for intellectual excellence was the leading characteristic of Charlemagne , and this undoubtedly biased him in the chief political error of his conduct - that of encouraging the power and pretensions of the ...
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Page 443 - Moreover, we have granted for us and our heirs, as well to archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, and other folk of holy Church, as also to earls, barons, and to all the commonalty of the land, that for no business from henceforth...
Page 518 - As the head of a body natural cannot change its nerves and sinews, cannot deny to the several parts their proper energy, their due proportion and aliment of blood; neither can a king, who is the head of a body politic, change the laws thereof, nor take from the people what is theirs, by right, against their consent.
Page 456 - But in the very second year of the son's reign they granted the twenty-fifth penny of their goods, '• upon this condition, that the king should take advice and grant redress upon certain articles wherein they are aggrieved.
Page 424 - Whether courts of justice framed the writ of Habeas Corpus in conformity to the spirit of this clause, or found it already in their register, it became from that era the right of every subject to demand it.
Page 418 - From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it. Fines were received for the king's help against the adverse suitor; that is, for perversion of justice, or for delay. Sometimes they were paid by opposite parties, and, of course, for opposite ends.