Partition Of The Empire By The French And Venetians,--Five Latin Emperors Of The Houses Of Flanders And Courtenay.
One hundred and forty years after the death of Zingis, his degenerate race, the dynasty of the Yuen, was expelled by a revolt of the native Chinese; and the Mogul emperors were lost in the oblivion of the desert.
But at the end of two years, the turbulence of the Latins and the levity of the Greeks, produced a revolution; [661] and the two emperors were buried in the tower from whence the two prisoners were exalted to the throne.
Footnote 51: Reinier and Conrad: the former married Maria, daughter of the emperor Manuel Comnenus; the latter was the husband of Theodora Angela, sister of the emperors Isaac and Alexius.
In the two firstemperors of Constantinople the male line of the counts of Flanders was extinct.
The Greek Emperors Of Nice And Constantinople.
The visits of their last emperors removed the veil of separation, and they disclosed to their eyes the powerful nations of Europe, whom they no longer presumed to brand with the name of Barbarians.
She was young, beautiful, and wealthy; and her noble family was allied to the Dorias of Genoa and the emperors of Constantinople.
Flemish French, on the Latin emperors of Constantinople, which Ducange has published at the end of Villehardouin; see p.
A warrior cult, the late paganemperors gave it their adhesion.
They recognized the king's virtually unlimited authority, which they patterned on the absolute power of the Roman Emperorsand the prerogatives of David and Solomon.
He was the chaplain of the Doge, Peter Urseolus, and the doge's ambassador to the emperors Otto III.
Yet he, with the clergy, deemed that his consecration by the Church gave him the prerogatives of Frankish sovereigns, which were patterned on those of Roman emperors and Old Testament kings.
So the emperors established municipal schools in the towns of Italy and the provinces.
As towards them he becomes even as Syagrius and the emperors before him, absolute ruler, princeps.
Some of its contradictions and anomalies were symbolized by Clovis's acceptance of the title of Consul and stamping the effigies of the easternemperors upon his coins--as if they held any power in the regnum Francorum!
The eastern emperors probably regarded him as their representative in Italy; and he coined money only with the Emperor's image.
Was the hand of those old emperors who made me their home any lighter laid upon the tribes of Danube and Rhine?
Am I who have routed so many emperors (Hebrus’ river is my witness) to endure flight at thine advice--I whom all nature obeys?
Can we believe that office unimportant and of slender dignity to hold which emperors think themselves honoured, that office by means of which I have caused conquered peoples and captive kings to pass beneath the yoke?
Here dwelt those emperors whom merit chose for merit, and so, adopting them as consuls for the Roman state, made judgement not blood continue a noble line.
But by degrees the power arrogated to itself by the "Holy Vehm" became so formidable that succeeding emperors were unable to control its workings and found themselves forced to become initiates from motives of self-protection.
The custom of offering votive crowns to Christian temples was taken by the emperors of Constantinople from heathen peoples of the eastern world.
Here emperors had been carried by in their litters to Albano.
The two most thoroughly depraved of all the emperors were certainly Commodus and Elagabalus; neither of whom persecuted the new religion, or indeed adopted any measures against it.
After many daring adventures, which savour of piracy, he was engaged in 1542 in a strange expedition to Calempin, near Pekin, which he had organized to plunder the tombs of seventeen Chinese emperors there.
It is difficult to believe that his Apologies were ever presented to the Roman Emperors or that his Dialogue with the Jew represents an actual controversy with an opponent.
In valor, discipline and science the Roman armies remained what they had always been, and the peasant emperors of Illyricum were worthy successors of Cincinnatus and Calus Marius.
The rising authority of later emperors had its roots in the ineffectiveness of the mob, until it came to pass that "the little finger of Constantine was thicker than the loins of Augustus.
It alone could bring about a little order in the provinces--and then, besides, the new emperors were firmly attached to the defence of Catholicism.
Even the most degenerate of the last Emperors never lost the conviction of Roman majesty and grandeur.
The emperors had only regulated an old custom of apostolic times in placing the Christians under the jurisdiction of their bishop.
The Emperors made a special point of this from political reasons easy to understand--to prevent riots and maintain public order.
These Carthaginian senators cut a considerable figure: for them their colleagues at Rome were full of airs and graces, and the Emperors endeavoured to keep them in a good-humour.
It was not only the emperors who disputed the privileges of immortality with the gods, but anybody who took it into his head, provided that he was rich or had any kind of notoriety.
Following the destruction of Jerusalem came the persecution of the early Christians under the pagan emperorsduring the first three centuries of the Christian era, that begun under Diocletian in 303 A.
What scripture shows that the Roman emperors ruled the world?
Emperors resolved to enforce their right of nominating the Popes.
Before the date of their ascendency we have to deal with Bishops of Rome, Emperors of the East and West, Exarchs and Kings of Italy, the feudal Lords of the Marches, the Dukes and Counts of Lombard and Frankish rulers.
The Emperors of the Julian house had exhibited the extreme of sensual insolence in their autocracy.
Though the material power of the Emperors was on the wane, it still existed as a dominant idea.
No Bulls of popes or edicts of emperors could alter the decree of destiny.
Long and terrible storms were yet to be passed, but the ship was launched which no thunders of emperors or popes could ever shatter.
The first events recorded in its history are struggles with rivers that had burst their bonds; its heroes are victors over the ruthless flood; the ancient emperors distinguished themselves by excavating canals and draining marshes.
Women have made the fortunes of Emperors by their advice and assistance, and the greatest men the world has seen have owned that their success was owing to feminine counsel.
The Emperors of Japan are parvenus of the vulgarest modernity in comparison, and the claims of long descent of every sovereign in Europe shrivel into absurdity beside the magnificent antiquity of this potentate.
My nose to me a kingdom is, and emperors and any millionaire might envy me the possession of my ears and eyes.
It is true that he was constrained to dwell ten years in the West, and that he belonged to an already civilized people, one of whose emperors had, 2700 B.
The peach is always mentioned among the fruits of immortality, with which were entertained the hopes of Tsinchi-Hoang, Vouty, of the Hans and other emperors who pretended to immortality, etc.
Unfortunately for the Catholics the Emperors who succeeded Charles V.
Fortunately, too, at the time when the Emperors were a danger rather than a protection to the Church, the rules of Bavaria undertook boldly the defence of the old religion, and placed themselves at the head of the Catholic forces.
Rudely constructed of timber by Tarquinius Drusus, and enlarged and improved with the growing fortunes of the republic, under the emperors it became a most superb building.
The senators, even during the commonwealth, had become openly corrupt in the dispensation of public justice; and under the government of the emperors pernicious abuse was practised to a yet greater extent.
But the odious government of the emperorswas not the only grievance under which the people laboured in those disastrous times: patrician avarice concurred with imperial rapacity to increase the sufferings of the nation.
Of all the Roman emperors who had hitherto reigned, he seems to have been most corrupted by profligate favourites, who flattered his follies and vices, to promote their own aggrandisement.
Why do all the emperorsand kings wear military costumes, attend manoeuvres and parades, distribute rewards to soldiers, erect monuments to generals and conquerors?
How Sultans and Emperors were to do it was as obscure as at the horror-filled hour of their first meeting.
He would beard Sultans in their lairs and Emperors in their dens.
This prejudice extended to later centuries, though under the first emperors numerous inhabitants of the provinces attained the rank of senator and reached the highest offices.
The emperorsthemselves used it in intercourse with persons to whom they wished to show attention.
During the reign of the emperors the free population of Rome was divided into three orders: senators, knights, and people (third order).
The usual mode of conducting a funeral under the emperors was to burn the corpse on a pyre (rogus); the original custom of interment had become more rare.
Under the emperors the coena began about half-past two o'clock in the afternoon, in winter probably somewhat later.
Under the emperors the clients usually became only poor parasites, in comparison with their rich masters.
The best-known booksellers and publishers under the emperors were: the Brothers Sosii, who issued the works of Horatius Flaccus (Hor.
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