 Anna is a faithful witness that his happiness was destroyed, and his health was broken, by the cares of a public life: the patience of Constantinople was fatigued by the length and severity of his reign; and before Alexius expired, he had lost the love...  Waverley Novels: Vol. 12 - Страница 5по Walter Scott - 1847 - 524 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 страници
...public life : the patience of Constantinople was fatigued by the length and severity of his reign; and before Alexius expired, he had lost the love and...defended with his tongue, his pen, and his sword. His character was degraded by the superstition of the Greeks; and the same inconsistent principle of... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 410 страници
...crusade ; but the long duration and severity of his reign, wearied the patience of Constantinople, and before Alexius expired, he had lost , the love and reverence of his subjects. Even the sincerity of his moral and religious virtues seems to have been suspected by those who had... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 страници
...public life : the patience of Constantinople was fatigued by the length and severity of his reign ; and before Alexius expired, he had lost the loVe and...orthodox faith, which he defended with his tongue, liis pen, and his sword. His character was degraded by the superstition of the Greeks; and the same... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 528 страници
...public life : the patience of Constantinople was fatigued by the length ' and severity of his reign ; and before Alexius expired, he had lost the love and reverence of his subjects. The clergy could not CHAP. forgive his application of the sacred riches to the defence of the state ; but they applauded... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 страници
...Constantinople was fatigued by the length and ADfna. severity of the reign of Alexius ; and, before he expired, he had lost the love and reverence of his...defended with his tongue, his pen, and his sword. In his last hours, when he was pressed by his wife Irene to alter the succession, he raised his head... | |
 | 1833 - 448 страници
...public life; the patience of Constantinople Was fatigued by the length and severity of his reign ; and before Alexius expired, he had lost the love and...subjects. The clergy could not forgive his application ol the sacred riches to the defence of the state; bul they applauded his theological learning, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1847 - 542 страници
...Constantinople was fatigued br the length and severity of his reign ; and before Alexias expired, he had loet the love and reverence of his subjects. The clergy...defended with his tongue, his pen, and his sword. His character was degraded by the • superstition of the Greeks ; and, the saine inconsistent principle... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1851 - 462 страници
...public life ; the patience of Constantinople was fatigued by the length and severity of his reign; and before Alexius expired, he had lost the love and...orthodox faith, which he defended with his tongue, ME pen, and his sword. Even the sincerity of his moral and religious virtues was suspected by the persons... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 страници
...public life : the patience of Constantinople was fatigued by the length and severity of his reign ; and before Alexius expired, he had lost, the love...defended with his tongue, his pen, and his sword. His character was degraded by the superstition of the Greeks ; and the same inconsistent principle... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 438 страници
...public life ; the patience of Constantinople was fatigued by the length and severity of his reign ; and before Alexius expired, he had lost the love and...learning, and ardent zeal for the orthodox faith, which ho defended with his tongue, his pen, and his (word. Even the sincerity of his moral and religious... | |
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