Category: History - European
It is an old and trite saying: “Good wine needs no bush,” and even the finest and most flourishing bush will fail to put either body or flavor into the growth of a bad vintage. It is left to the reader of this little volume to decide whether or not the author has succeeded in...
The Arabian peninsula, called by the natives JESIRA-AL-ARAB, by the Persians and Turks ARABISTAN, forms the south-westernmost part of Asia. It is bounded on the north by Syria a...
5. CHAPTER II.After the death of the prophet, his companions convened an assembly to deliberate on the choice of his successor, as Mohammed had abstained from expressing any explicit command...
6. CHAPTER I.A great deal of labor and ingenuity has been wasted in futile endeavors to trace the origin of a _distinct_ Frank nation; however, after exhausting every possible means of resea...
7. CHAPTER II.When the Roman empire had ceased to exist, the Frankish kings had, in imitation of the Roman rulers, begun to surround themselves with a court, and a great many high officers, a...
1. VOLUME I. OF THE HISTORIC SKETCHES.It is an old and trite saying: “Good wine needs no bush,” and even the finest and most flourishing bush will fail to put either body or flavor into the growth of a bad vintage....
3. CHAPTER I.--The Frank Confederacy.--Clovis, the Founder of2. CHAPTER I.--Arabia and its inhabitants.--Life and doctrine