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And Bajazet principally grounded his resolution of giving Tamerlane battle, contrary to the opinion of all his captains, upon this, that his enemies numberless number of men gave him assured hopes of confusion.
On hearing of the banishment of the Jews from Spain, Sultan Bajazet exclaimed: "How can you call Ferdinand of Aragon a wise king, the same Ferdinand who has made his land poor and enriched ours?" His amazement characterizes the relation of Turkey to the Jews of the day.
But the Aragonese monarchs of Naples, from whom Mohammed at the instigation, we read, of other Italian governments, especially of Venice had once wrested Otranto , afterwards hounded on the Sultan Bajazet II against the Venetians. The same charge was brought against Lodovico il Moro.
An imperial mantle, made for Cyrus the Great, and worn by Julius Caesar, Bajazet, King Harry the Eighth, and Signor Valentini. A basket-hilted sword, very convenient to carry milk in. Roxana's night-gown. Othello's handkerchief. The imperial robes of Xerxes, never worn but once. A wild boar killed by Mrs. A serpent to sting Cleopatra. A mustard-bowl to make thunder with.
In like manner Bajazet, sultan of the Turks, though a man of peace rather than of war, was able to enjoy the labours of Mahomet his father, who, like David, having subdued his neighbours, left his son a kingdom so safely established that it could easily be retained by him by peaceful arts.
Far otherwise; he suffers agonies from the smallest contrarieties. I returned to Paris in a state of dejection almost beyond belief. Well, one evening, by way of enlivening my spirits, I went to the Comédie, where they were playing Bajazet, one of Racine's excellent pieces.
An old man, he was looking towards China as another field for invasion, when he died . Bajazet died soon after his defeat. The empire of Tamerlane quickly fell to pieces. His course had been like that of a hurricane, terrible in its work of destruction, but soon at an end. The Byzantine dominion was soon confined to Constantinople and small districts adjacent.
The King of France had accepted these terms. But then Innocent VIII had intervened, and in his turn had claimed D'jem, ostensibly to give support by the claims of the refugee to a crusade which he was preaching against the Turks, but in reality to appropriate the pension of 40,000 ducats to be given by Bajazet to any one of the Christian princes who would undertake to be his brother's gaoler.
The Ragusa archives record: "In January 1398, the son of Bajazet, with a great number of Turks and Slavs, entered Bosnia." Stefan Ostoja was now King of Bosnia, but he too seems to have been more intent upon annexing Ragusa than in organizing defence against the Turk.
"Manage the matter as well as you can, my good man; it does not concern me, the more so as I have not a livre left." "Come," said d'Artagnan, "let us inquire further. Athos's horse, where is that?" "In the stable." "How much is it worth?" "Fifty pistoles at most." "It's worth eighty. Take it, and there ends the matter." "What," cried Athos, "are you selling my horse my Bajazet?
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