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Did I not hearken to your instructions, who told me that these charities were, of all others, the most grateful to my Maker, and fixed a perpetual fund for the support of religion? And are all our pious endeavours now frustrated by the dissolute lives of the priests? Brompton, p. 864. Flor. Wigorn. p. 606. Chron. Abb. St. Spell.
This decisive advantage secured the conquests of Aella, who assumed the name of king, and extended his dominion over Sussex and a great part of Surrey. Sax. p.14. Ann. Flor. None of the other tribes of Saxons met with such vigorous resistance, or exerted such valour and perseverance in pushing their conquests.
Robert, his eldest son, surnamed Gambaron or Curthose, from his short legs, was a prince who inherited all the bravery of his family and nation; but without that policy and dissimulation, by which his father was so much distinguished, and which, no less than his military valour, had contributed to his great successes. Vital. p. 545. Hoveden, p. 457. Flor. Hoveden, p. 457. Sim. Dun. p. 210.
"Eighty years," said Ferragut, terminating his account of the glorious adventures of Roger de Flor around Gallipoli, "the Spanish duchy of Athens and Neopatria flourished. Eighty years the Catalans governed these lands." And he pointed out on the horizon the place where the red haze of distant promontories and mountains outlined the Grecian land. Such a duchy was in reality a republic.
Even the Earls Edwin and Morcar, in despair of making effectual resistance, retired with their troops to their own provinces; and the people thenceforth disposed themselves unanimously to yield to the victor. Flor. Pict. p. 205. Ord.
Roseta had the brains for you! Let's have dinner on that, ladies and gentlemen! And we'll have a real toast afterward ... to Flor de mayo! The frying-pan was lifted from the stove and carried into the house, and the whole family rose to follow significant happenings that did not escape the watchful eyes of little Pascualet. He deserted his orphéon of tiny choristers.
Sharp eyes soon made out the identity of the craft. Flor de Mayo! Flor de Mayo! The boat came on, now swallowed in the deep trough, now rearing on the crests of the combers. Siñá Tona and Dolores began to shriek and scream like mad.
She had thought of it at home, the evening before, on looking at a picture that came in a package of tobacco from Gibraltar. She thought the name looked so pretty! It was printed in colors around the trademark on the box a girl in dancing costume, with roses red as tomatoes on the little white skirt and a bunch of flowers in her hand, as bright and stiff as radishes! Flor de mayo!
'Quid quod toti orbi et ipsi mundo cum sideribus suis minantur incendium, ruinam moliuntur? The doctrine in their mouths became a very different thing from the Stoic theory of the periodic re-absorption of the universe in the Divine Element. Ibid., pp. 322 ff. Diog. La. x. 118. See above, end of chap. iii. Flor. i. 85. I. What the Disciple should be; and concerning Common Conceptions.
There is a code which passes under the name of Henry I., but the best antiquaries have agreed to think it spurious. It is however a very ancient compilation, and may be useful to instruct us in the manners and customs of the times. Dunelm p. 231. Brompton, p. 1000. Flor. Wigorn. p. 653. Dunelm. p. 231. Brompton, p. 1000. Hoveden, p. 471. Annal. Blackstone, vol. iii. p. 63.
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