The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Volume 15H.G. Allen, 1888 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Roman emperor , eldest son of Louis the Pious , was born in 795. At a diet held at Aix - la - Chapelle in 817 he received Austrasia with the greater part of Germany , and was associated with his father in the empire , while separate ...
... Roman emperor , eldest son of Louis the Pious , was born in 795. At a diet held at Aix - la - Chapelle in 817 he received Austrasia with the greater part of Germany , and was associated with his father in the empire , while separate ...
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... Roman Satur- nalia and in the banquets of aristocratic Romans the object was amusement ; the guests received apophoreta . The same plan was followed on a magnificent scale by some of the emperors . Nero excited the people by giving such ...
... Roman Satur- nalia and in the banquets of aristocratic Romans the object was amusement ; the guests received apophoreta . The same plan was followed on a magnificent scale by some of the emperors . Nero excited the people by giving such ...
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... Roman constructions have been found , with fragments of porphyry pavement , mosaics , and mural paintings . The Carmelite convent , now occupied by the Brethren of Christian Doctrine , was the scene of the trial of Urban Grandier , who ...
... Roman constructions have been found , with fragments of porphyry pavement , mosaics , and mural paintings . The Carmelite convent , now occupied by the Brethren of Christian Doctrine , was the scene of the trial of Urban Grandier , who ...
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... Roman emperor , grandson of the preceding , was born about 822 and crowned king of Lombardy in 844. From 849 he shared the imperial title with his father , Lothair I. , being crowned at Rome by Leo IV . in 850. He succeeded to the ...
... Roman emperor , grandson of the preceding , was born about 822 and crowned king of Lombardy in 844. From 849 he shared the imperial title with his father , Lothair I. , being crowned at Rome by Leo IV . in 850. He succeeded to the ...
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... Roman poet of the silver age , grandson of the rhetorician Seneca and nephew of the philosopher , was born at ... Roman republic never inspired a Roman poet . Lucan never speaks of himself , but his epic speaks for him . The author of ...
... Roman poet of the silver age , grandson of the rhetorician Seneca and nephew of the philosopher , was born at ... Roman republic never inspired a Roman poet . Lucan never speaks of himself , but his epic speaks for him . The author of ...
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Page 205 - the devil teacheth how to make pictures of wax or clay, that, by roasting thereof, the persons that they bear the name of may be continually melted, or dried away by continual sickness.
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Page 183 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, .and liberties appertaining to them.
Page 127 - I have gone back to Greek literature with a passion quite astonishing to myself. I have never felt anything like it. I was enraptured with Italian during the six months which I gave up to it ; and I was little less pleased with Spanish. But when I went back to the Greek, I felt as if I had never known before what intellectual enjoyment was.
Page 296 - At the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century, many academic societies were established in southern France and in Italy, mostly devoted to the cultivation of poetry.
Page 128 - I am more than half determined to abandon politics, and to give myself wholly to letters ; to undertake some great historical work which may be at once the business and the amusement of my life...
Page 128 - ... was one which had to be thought out as he went along, or brightening from the forehead downwards when a burst of humor was coming, his massive features and honest glance suited well with the manly sagacious sentiments which he set forth in his sonorous voice and in his racy and intelligible language. To get at his meaning people had never the need to think twice, and they certainly had seldom the time.
Page 324 - I was much struck with this, when in the island of Bali I saw Chinese traders who had adopted the costume of that country, and who could then hardly be distinguished from Malays ; and, on the other hand, I have seen natives of Java who, as far as physiognomy was concerned, would pass very well for Chinese.
Page 149 - Percussina, a hamlet of San Casciano, Machiavelli completed the Principe before the end of 1513. This famous book is an analysis of the methods whereby an ambitious man may rise to sovereign power. It appears to have grown out of another scarcely less celebrated work, upon which Machiavelli had been engaged before he took the Principe in hand, and which he did not finish until some time afterwards. This second treatise is the Discorsi sopra la prima deçà di Tito Livio.