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"But she hath a royal way with her, as of one born to the throne, and for that matter it were not strange for one of the house of Cornelii they held their heads proudly enough in Venice, I am told; and her mother was of the blood of a Comnenus more royal than a Lusignan, if not so well tempered." "Aye; she is well enough."
At the time I write he is at Pignerol; his bad disposition is forever getting him into trouble. She sends him lots of money unknown to the King, who generally knows everything. All this money he squanders or gambles away, and when funds are low, says, "The old lady will send us some." Hyde, the Chancellor. Misfortune Not Always Misfortune. Prince Comnenus. The King at Petit-Bourg. His Incognito.
Byzantium and the Greek Empire, to which the Emperor Manuel Comnenus had by 1168 restored some measure of its former greatness and splendour, regaining temporary control, after a long war with Hungary, even over Dalmatia, Croatia, and Bosnia, after this date began definitively to decline, and after the troublous times of the fourth crusade , when for sixty years a Latin empire was established on the Bosphorus, never again recovered as a Christian state the position in the Balkan peninsula which it had so long enjoyed.
Once more adieu, and forget not what I have told thee. This is a night, Zosimus, in which the Emperor must toil like a slave, if he means not to return to the humble Alexius Comnenus, and even then there were no resting- place."
At the time I write he is at Pignerol; his bad disposition is forever getting him into trouble. She sends him lots of money unknown to the King, who generally knows everything. All this money he squanders or gambles away, and when funds are low, says, "The old lady will send us some." Hyde, the Chancellor. Misfortune Not Always Misfortune. Prince Comnenus. The King at Petit-Bourg. His Incognito.
Manuel Comnenus, the Greek Emperor, successor not only to the throne, but to the policy of Alexius, looked with alarm upon the new levies who had come to eat up his capital and imperil its tranquillity.
We know Alexius Comnenus -he is willing to discharge, at the highest cost, such obligations as are incurred to men like this Hereward; and, believe me, I think that I see the wily despot shrug his shoulders in derision, when one morning he is saluted with the news of a battle in Palestine lost by the crusaders in which his old acquaintance has fallen a dead man.
"How!" said the Varangian, "does the Protospathaire pretend to any authority over the noble exiles? By the red dragon, under which we will live and die, we will obey no man alive but Alexius Comnenus himself, and our own officers!"
And if Briennius bears no longer the fame of a rational man, and the renown of a good leader, he is deprived of both by following the advice of this artful sycophant." "And what is all this to me?" said, the Frank. "Agelastes may be a true man or a time-serving slave; his master, Alexius Comnenus, is not so much allied to me or mine that I should meddle in the intrigues of his court."
He had little fancy for Pericles, Caesar, Augustus, and Napoleon, and considered that the art of reigning had been understood by Justinian and Alexis Comnenus alone. And when Gilbert protested warmly in the name of human dignity against this theory: "Stop just there!" said the Count; "no big words, no declamation, but listen to me! These pheasants are good.
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