 | Henry Hallam - 1818 - 554 pages
...; attemptmg, tor the sake or commerce, the magnificent entcrprizc of uniting the Rhine and Danube,* and meditating to mould the discordant codes of Roman...he divorced with very little ceremony, attest the license of his private life, which his temperance and frugality can hardly be said to redeem.^ Unsparing... | |
 | 1819 - 950 pages
...attempting for t!> • sake of rommeice, the magnificent enterprize of uniting the Khine mid Danube, .'mi meditating to mould the discordant codes of Roman and barbarian laws into an uniform MS« III. 'I'h<; great qualities of Charlemagne weit indeed alloyed by the vices of a barbarian and... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1835 - 476 pages
...attempting, for the sake of commerce, the magnificent enterprize of uniting the Rhine and Danube (2) ; and meditating to mould the discordant codes of Roman...qualities of Charlemagne were indeed alloyed by the vices oi: a barbarian 'and a conqueror. Nine wives, whom he divorced with very little ceremony, attest the... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1837 - 576 pages
...attempting, for the sake of commerce, the magnificent enterprise of uniting the Rhine and Danube;* and meditating to mould the discordant codes of Roman and barbarian laws into a uniform system. The great qualities of Charlemagne were indeed alloyed by the vices of a barbarian... | |
 | William Jones - 1838 - 708 pages
...«nd collecting libraries ; interfering, bat -with the tone of a king, in religious controversies ; and meditating to mould the discordant codes of Roman and barbarian laws into an uniform system. The chief political error of his reign consisted in his lending his powerful aid to the support of the... | |
 | Joseph Snowe - 1839 - 518 pages
...of his sister* " The great qualities of Charlemagne," says Hallnm, with much truth and propriety, " were indeed alloyed by the vices of a barbarian and...he divorced with very little ceremony, attest the license of his private life, which his temperance and frugality can hardly be said to redeem."— View... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 332 pages
...undertaking, for the benefit of commerce, the magnificent enterprise of uniting the Rhine and the Danube, and meditating to mould the discordant codes of Roman and barbarian laws into a uniform system. Charlemagne was born in the year 742. The place of his birth is not known, some writers... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1846 - 610 pages
...attempting, for the sake of commerce, the magnificent enterprise of uniting the Rhine and Danube t ; and meditating to mould the discordant codes of Roman...his temperance and frugality can hardly be said to redeem. Unsparing of blood, though not constitutionally cruel, and wholly indifferent to the means... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1853 - 532 pages
...unfortunate prince. acquisitions in logie, grammar, rhetorie, | See an essay upon this project in the The great qualities of Charlemagne were indeed alloyed...his temperance and frugality can hardly be said to redeem. Unsparing of blood, though not constitutionally cruel, and wholly indifferent to the means... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1853 - 532 pages
...attempting, for the sake of commerce, the magnificent enterprise of uniting the Rhine and Danube t ; and meditating to mould the discordant codes of Roman and barbarian laws into an uniform system. * [NOTE X.] and astronomy. But the anonymous f Eginhard attests his ready eloquence, author of the... | |
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... of every country ; founding schools, and collecting libraries ; interfering, but with the tone of a king, in religious controversies ; aiming, though prematurely, at the formation of a naval force ; attempting, for the sake of commerce, the magnificent... 
