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The World Displayed in Its History and Geography; Embracing a History of the World from the Creation to the Present Day to Which Is Added, an Outline of Modern Geography


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1831 Excerpt: ... Austrasia. He succeeded his father as Mayor of the Palace, as has before been stated. That he was a man of great capacity, appears from the record of his exploits. As the progenitor of the Cariovingian race of kings, and conqueror of the Saracens, when they were upon the point of overrunning all Europe, he is entitled to a very respectful notice in the page of history. Divine Providence seems to have raised him up for a great purpose, in checking the conquering career of the followers of the false prophet. The prodigious number of 375,000 Saracens, he is said to have defeated and slain. He died in 741. 5. John Damascenus flourished in the eighth century, dying about the year 750. His birth-place was Damascus. He was liberally educated, and early made great progress in literature. He succeeded his father, as counsellor of state to the Saracen Caliph of Damascus. Becoming zealous for the forms of religion, and warmly espousing the cause of images, he greatly offended Leo Isauricus, the Eastern emperor. There is a wild legend of the times, that the emperor caused the hand of Damascenus to be cut off, and that it was miraculously replaced by the kind interposition of the Virgin Mary. After a while. he is said to have retired from public affairs, and spent the remainder of his life in solitude. In this situation he wrote books of divinity, of which he left many behind him. He is not generally thought to have been an evangelical writer. Mosheim says that he surpassed all his contemporaries among the Greeks and Orientals, but was superstitious, and absorbed in a vain philosophy. PERIOD V. The Period of the New Western Empire; extending from, the Crowning of Charlemagne, 800.4. C, to the First Crusade, 1095 years A. C. NEW WESTERN EMPIRE. Sec. 1. The New Western Em...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151273598
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 276
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151273597
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 499 gr


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