All the barbarian irruptions did but harass and hinder the new development; they finally counted for little in its upward course.
His conduct was so vile, and his government so discredited by irruptions of the Huns on the Danube, and of Saracens in Mesopotamia, that his wife's stepmother Verina, the widow of Leo I.
St. Leo was nearly all his life contemporaneous with the terrible irruptions of the Huns.
This is the language that rose upon the ruins of the Latin tongue, after the irruptions of the Goths, Vandals, Huns, and Burgundians, by whom the Roman empire was destroyed.
The baths of Aix, so famous in antiquity, were quite demolished by the irruptions of the barbarians.
Of course I refer to those irruptions which have taken place since our knowledge and possession of the Cape.
Now the irruptions we have had into the Caffre and Bechuana country bordering upon the colony have been wholly brought about by the devastations committed by Chaka.
I have no doubt but that such irruptions have been continued, and that they have occurred once in every century for ages.
It is impossible to say what may be going on at present, or what may take place before you arrive at your destination, as these northern irruptions are continual.
Dangleria says that the islands Lucayas that then joined to the great islands, were divided by irruptions of the sea.
THE destruction of all documents relating to East Anglia, during the irruptions of the Danes, has rendered this period the most obscure of any period of our history.
He was a native of Norwich, and greatly assisted the Protestant emigrants who fled to his diocese from the Palatinate on the Rhine, through the irruptions and exactions of the French.
He makes sudden irruptions into the regions of knowledge, and sees all obstacles give way before him; but he never stays long enough to complete his conquest, to establish laws, or bring away the spoils.
It is futile for any one to attempt to estimate how many more of these irruptions the Germans are capable of, but we are certain that be it this summer or next there is a limit to them.
They have seen again and again the irruptions of the Germans gradually absorbed by their troops, and each set back now is accepted as only temporary.
He was scarcely recovered, when the intelligence that the Christians were making insulting irruptions to the very outworks of Algeziras made him resolve on punishing their audacity.
The best expedient against the irruptions of the Hungarians appeared to him to be the circumvallation of the most important districts, the erection of forts and of fortified cities.
Between which Dhu'lkarnein built the famous rampart, mentioned immediately, against the irruptions of Gog and Magog.
It is said these barbarous people made theirirruptions into the neighbouring countries in the spring, and destroyed and carried off all the fruits of the earth; and some pretend they were man-eaters.
A sudden and violent inroad, or entrance of invaders; as, theirruptions of the Goths into Italy.
A bursting in; a sudden, violent rushing into a place; as, irruptions of the sea.
The frontiers were at all times liable to the sudden irruptionsof savages, and it was necessary to keep scouting parties continually upon the alert.
Apprehending, also, sudden irruptions of scalping parties, the aged, and such as from other causes were exempt from military service, now organized themselves into a company for the protection of the settlement.
Most unfortunate was it, therefore, that the quarrel broke out afresh at the precise moment when the services of all were alike wanted for the common defence--especially on a border exposed to the daily irruptions of the Indians.
In fine, all the north of Spain declared itself in opposition to the Moors, {60} and the south became a prey to the irruptions of the Normans.
All these revolutions did not prevent the Christian and Moorish governors who commanded on their respective frontiers from making incessant irruptions into the enemy's country.
Between Lillo and Stabroek, in the district of Bergen, a wide and somewhat sloping plain extends as far as Antwerp, being protected by numerous embankments and counter-embankments against the irruptions of the East Scheldt.
The first seriousirruptions of the German tribes into the Roman Empire began in the third century with the decay of the central power.
But before we go on to tell of the irruptions of the barbarians and the attempts of such later emperors as Diocletian (284 A.
We have already given an account in the previous chapter of the chief irruptions of the barbarian races.
Nevertheless, as their irruptions were unexpected, and the people were unprepared for resistance, many holy edifices suffered from these attacks, and a great number of priests and monks were murdered.
As a whole, the Scandinavian irruptions were a complete failure.
In all, the discrepancies most probably arise from the styles peculiar to the several nations, previously to the irruptions of the northern hordes.
James’s admirable account of these irruptionsin his Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902, pp.
Domi'tian soon found the want of so experienced a commander, in the many irruptions of the barbarous nations that surrounded the empire.
What nations afterwards made irruptions into the Roman provinces?
Every year now produced new calamities to the state; and fresh irruptions on every side threatened universal desolation.
It appeared most prudent for the king to govern his kingdom with suitable moderation, and to defend it from the irruptions of the barbarians.
This institution sprang from the extreme disorder of society, and arose like a bulwark, which human generosity opposed to the irruptions of license, and the passions of a barbarous age.
Much the largest proportion of the lands so reclaimed, though for the most part lying above low-water tidemark, are at a lower level than the Lincolnshire fens, and more subject to inundation from the irruptions of the sea.
The old Netherlandish chronicles are filled with the most startling accounts of the damage done by the irruptions of the ocean, from west winds or extraordinarily high tides, at times long before any considerable extent of seacoast was diked.
The independent Indians are still the chief occupiers of Quixos and Macas; their irruptions are frequent and much dreaded, most of them being of a warlike disposition.
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