Mémoires d'un homme enfermé comme aliénése trouve chez divers libraires, 1838 - 229 pages |
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12 royaumes 22 septembre Africa animaux Antioch Apoc appear army Barbarians Basiliscus Bélisaire Bible bishop c'était carbone cause chap Chré Chrétiens Christianisme churches coast Constantinople crois Danube death Déluge domestique earth East écrit emperor ENFERMÉ COMME ALIÉNÉ Explication des Prophéties femme Février find first flame of war formed found Genséric Gépides Gibbon Globe Gothic Goths government great head Hellespont hundred Italy J'ai lu J'ai remarqué j'avais j'étais J'eus Janvier journal Jugements de Dieu Justinien king kingdom l'auteur l'Ecriture l'Em l'Empire d'Orient l'Empire Romain lettre livre loss magistrat maison d'aliénés médecin ment Mr Peschier name Occident Odoacer Orient Papes paraît parle peace pense people pire pope populous present princes provinces réclusion reign Ricimer rocks Roman Empire Rome same sang semble septembre 1835 shells Souffrances de l'Empire spread strata Theodoric thousand three time tinian tion tremblements de terre vanquished veux dire volcanique West years
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Page 195 - ... stained with the blood of women or children. Destroy NO palm-trees, nor burn any fields of corn. Cut down no fruit trees, nor do any mischief to cattle, only such as you kill to eat. When you make any covenant or article, stand to it, and be as good as your word. As you go on, you will find some religious persons who live retired in monasteries, and propose to themselves to serve God that way ; let them alone, and neither kill them nor destroy their monasteries...
Page 113 - ... and containing almost all of them innumerable marine productions. Similar strata, with the same kind of productions, compose the hills even to a great height. Sometimes the shells are so numerous, as to constitute the entire body of the stratum. They are almost every where in such a perfect state of preservation, that even the smallest of them retain their most delicate parts, their sharpest ridges, and their finest and tenderest processes.
Page 113 - ... tenderest processes. They are found in elevations far above the level of every part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any existing cause.
Page 172 - Justinian and his successors first appeared in the neighbourhood of Pelusium, between the Serbonian bog and the eastern channel of the Nile. From thence, tracing as it were a double path, it spread to the East, over Syria, Persia, and the Indies, and penetrated to the West, along the coast of Africa, and over the continent of Europe. In the spring of the second year, Constantinople, during three or four months, was visited by the pestilence ; and Procopius, who observed its progress and symptoms...
Page 117 - It has observed a regular succession as to the nature of its deposits: the more ancient the strata are, so much the more uniform and extensive are they; and the more recent they are, the more limited are they, and the more variation is observed in them at small distances.
Page 182 - Jerusalem, an obscure town on the confines of Syria was pillaged by the Saracens, and they cut in pieces some troops who advanced to its relief: an ordinary and trifling occurrence, had it not been the prelude of a mighty revolution. These robbers were the apostles of Mahomet; their fanatic valour had emerged from the desert; and in the last eight years of his reign Heraclius lost to the Arabs the same provinces which he had rescued from the Persians.
Page 192 - Nor was the supremacy of the emperor confined to Germany alone: the hereditary monarchs of Europe confessed the preeminence of his rank and dignity: he was the first of the Christian princes, the temporal head of the great republic of the West: 166 to his person the title of majesty was long appropriated; and he disputed with the pope the sublime prerogative of creating kings and assembling councils.
Page 113 - We are therefore forcibly led to believe, not only that the sea has at one period or another covered all our plains, but that it must have remained there for a long time, and in a state of tranquillity...
Page 116 - The traces of revolutions become still more apparent and decisive when we ascend a little higher, and approach nearer to the foot of the great chains of mountains. There are still found many beds of shells; some of these are even larger and more solid; the shells are quite as numerous and as entirely preserved; but they are not of the same species with those which were found in the less elevated regions".
Page 97 - D2 with that from the mountain lime, he will not find one single instance of specific agreement, and in very few instances any thing that could deceive even an unpractised eye, by the superficial resemblance of such an agreement. If we cast a rapid view over the phenomena of this distribution, the subject must appear to present some of the most singular problems which can engage the attention of the inquirer into nature. First we have a foundation of primitive rocks destitute of these organic remains;...