History of Frederick the Second, Emperor of the Romans: From Chronicles and Documents Published Within the Last Ten Years, Volume 1

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Page 443 - We keep the students within view of their parents; we save them many toils and long foreign journeys; we protect them from robbers. They used to be pillaged while travelling abroad; now, they may study at small cost and short wayfaring, thanks to our liberality.
Page 422 - ... Germans, and Jews ; to curtail local privileges, to level distinctions, and thereby rivalries and enmities between cities (the fruitful cause of Italy's misfortunes to this day); to abolish podestas, consuls, rectors, — all impediments to one authority; to summon deputies from forty-seven cities to a conference or parliament, " for the weal of the kingdom, and the general advantage of the State...
Page 109 - ... boys. And now, as he sits in his gleaming palace, uncertain where to turn for help, all his sad young heart goes into an appealing letter which has come down to us across the centuries, and a portion of which is here given to complete the dismal picture of this worried young monarch of long ago: " To all the Kings of the world and to all the Princes of the universe, the innocent boy, King of Sicily, called Frederick : Greeting in God's name ! Assemble yourselves, ye nations ; draw nigh, ye princes,...
Page 285 - God," said this Pope to Frederick, " has bestowed on you the gift of knowledge and of perfect imagination, and all Christendom follows you. Take heed that you do not place your intellect, which you have in common with angels, below your senses, which you have in common with brutes and plants...
Page 323 - ... Arabs. Sultan Kamel gave it up as with a sympathetic answering shrug ; and Frederick went in person to the famous city where no Roman Emperor had been since it was lost by Heraclius six hundred years before. An Imaum of the Mosque of Omar, who went with him, says, " The Emperor was red and bald ; he had weak eyes : had he been a slave he would not have fetched 200 drachms He asked why bars had been placed on the windows of the Holy Chapel ? ' To keep out the birds,
Page 83 - Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries : for there are false witnesses risen up against me, and such as speak wrong.
Page 299 - The Roman Church is like a leech : she calls herself my mother and nurse ; but she is a stepmother, and the root of all evils. Her legates go throughout all lands, binding, loosing, punishing ; not to sow the seed of the Word, but to subdue all men and to wring from them their money.
Page 460 - The illustrious heroes, Frederick Caesar and ~his noble -son Manfred, followed after elegance and scorned what was mean ; so that all the best compositions of the time came out of their court. Thus, because their royal throne was in Sicily, all the poems of our predecessors in the vulgar tongue are called Sicilian.
Page 480 - I have seen him," said the Minorite Salimbene, " and at one time I loved him ; in truth, there would have been few rulers in the world like him, had he loved God, the Church, and his own soul.
Page 335 - ... converso quos urserit urgent. Adveniente Dei famulo magno Friderico Sol nitet, aura tepet, aqua bullit, terra virescit . . . Jerusalem gaude nomen Domini venerare Magnifica lande : vis ut dicam tibi quare ? Rex quia magnificus Jesus o/im, nunc Fridericus.

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