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In 731 the Saracens, masters of the peninsula, poured over the Pyrenees, and entered the Septimania. They had come not to conquer and pillage, but to conquer and occupy. They had brought with them accordingly their wives and children. They took Narbonne, Carcassone and Nimes, besieged Toulouse, and almost totally destroyed Bordeaux.
Under these circumstances it is proposed to consider in detail only the Babylonian and Syrian expeditions, and to dismiss the others with a few general remarks on the results which were accomplished by them. Tiglath-Pileser's expeditions against Babylon were in his first and in his fifteenth years, B.C. 745 and 731.
Rabbits and other vermin browse on the vines, fruit-trees, and vegetables. Farmers are not allowed to destroy weeds for fear of disturbing game. Mounted keepers ride all over the fields, trampling down the crops. T., Alencon, A. P., i. 719, ch. viii. Section 3. Exmes, A. P., i. 728, Sections 20, 21. Verneuil, A. P., i. 731, Section 44. Seigneur de Pierrefitte, A. P., v. 19, Section 16.
In 731 more arrived in a veritable invasion of multitudes, and ravaged all the south of France. Again the caves served their end as places of hiding. The south of France, rich and dissolute, was steeped in heresy.
The following table gives the official records in the five leading Grange states: ========================================================= | 1900 | 1905 | | Granges | Members | Granges | Members | New York | 550 | 43,000 | 582 | 66,500 Maine | 275 | 29,000 | 387 | 49,000 Michigan | 420 | 25,000 | 731 | 45,000 Pennsylvania | 526 | 20,000 | 560 | 34,000 New Hampshire| 260 | 24,000 | 263 | 28,000
He was a priest of the great abbey church of Weremouth, in Northumbria, and was a master of all the learning then known. He was the life of the famous school of Jarrow, and it is said that six hundred monks, besides strangers, listened to his teachings. His greatest work was an "Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation," which extends from the landing of Julius Caesar to the year 731.
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