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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852. Excerpt: ... So much the note-book. Nothing distinguishes it from a diy quotation of a touristsguide. It is »a text without a sermon.a The reader turns away disappointed. Patience! The clergyman is coming. ILLOCK m HUNGARY. Far in the interior of Hungary, where the Drave unites with the Danube and separates countries and races, near the confines of Sclavonia, a little fortress looks down from its mountaintop upon the rivers and and plains below. This is Illock, the castle; and the neck of the height bears a cloister. AH the country around is classic. Here eighteen centuries ago, Rome, with the help of German warriors, conquered the land and yoked the free people of Thrace; from hence her consuls and emperors brought the captured kings and generals of the vanquished for the decoration of their triumphal processions, to dazzle the eyes of the idle, staring, ambitious multitude of the seven-hilled city;--and here, where several military roads crossed, sprung up numerous Eoman cities and colonies, and were erected by the emperors those extraordinary works of fortification, on the possession of which has ever depended the occupation of the most important strategic points of the country. As far as the eye can reach from the towers of Illock, the landscape is a battle-field, where, from times of tradition to the present day, hired warriors and independent peoples were wrestling, robbers with the robbed, oppressors with the oppressed, freemen with the slaves, who had come, at the command of their masters, to deprive nations of liberty. Near'Block had Eome obtained a central position for ker power, by which ske keld tke countries of tke Lower Danube under ker iron yoke. Tkose extensive and impregnable fortifications, wkick ske constructed m tke marshes between tke Drave a...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150831367
- ISBN 13 9781150831362
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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