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Historical Pictures of the Middle Ages, in Black and White; Made on the Spot (from Records in the Archives of Switzerland)
Historical Pictures of the Middle Ages in Black and White Made on the Spot - from Records in the Archives of Switzerland Author:Robert Moore General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1846 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 54 BERTHA, QUEEN OF TRANSJTJKANE-BUKGUNDY: HISTORICAL SKETCH OP THE MIDDLE AGES. " At this disastrous era of the ninth and tenth centuries, Europe was afflicted by a triple scourge from the north, the east, and the south; the Norman, the Hungarian, and the Saracen sometimes trod the same ground of desolation; and these savage foes might have been compared by Homer to the two lions growling over the carcass of a mangled stag. The churches resounded with a fearful litany : -- ' O save and deliver us from the arrows of the Hungarians!'" Gibbon, vol. vii. page 113. " Pour adoucir les moeurs de nos peuples sauvages, Tu fondas des raoutiers; tu batis des chateaux; Tu defrichas nos monts ; tu peuplas nos villages: Tout nous rappelle encore tes bienfaisans travaux." £. PA. Bridel. If there be on earth a single thing which speaks to us of heaven, it is the benignant countenance which watched over our cradle. Mother is the first word lisped by infant lips! then we learn to pronounce BERTHA, THE ROYAL SPINSTER. 55 that of our common parent -- the hallowed name of the land of our nativity : and, whenever one of those great families of earth termed a nation has existed -- wherever man has been called to fight and to suffer -- there, too, has lived a daughter of heaven -- the mother, the nurse, the protector, the consoler of the weak, the suffering, and the wo-worn. Sometimes, like the heroic maiden of Orleans, she has appeared in warrior guise, leading armed hosts to combat for a holy cause ; at others, arrayed in sackcloth and ashes, like the daughter of Sion, weeping over the ruins of Jerusalem, ...« less