Dalmatia and Montenegro: With a Journey to Mostar in Herzegovia, and Remarks on the Slavonic Nations; the History of Dalmatia and Ragusa; the Uscocs; &c. &c, Volumen2

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J. Murray, 1848
 

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Página 101 - This much, however, is certain, — that they denied the sovereignty of the Pope, the power of the priests, the efficacy of prayers for the dead, and the existence of purgatory;* while they rejected all images, relics, and the worship of the saints. Whether the advent of the sect into Bosnia was from the Bulgarian or Italian side is unknown ; but, be this as it may, it is beyond a doubt that they were most favourably received (in 1197) by Kulin, who was at that time Ban of...
Página 213 - Slavonic literati should become acquainted with the sister dialects, so that a Bohemian, or other, work might be read on the shores of the Adriatic, as well as on the banks of the Volga, or any other place...
Página 387 - Brulart, the French Ambassador at Venice, relates that, of the Uscocs who were hung, on the 14th of August, 1618, nine were Englishmen ; five of whom were gentlemen ; and another belonged to one of the noblest families of Britain...
Página 449 - Slavonis, in order to open a communication between the capital on one side and Philippi and Thessalonica on the other. Justinian...
Página 96 - Krasineki. tenets into France by means of pilgrims and traders, who were on their return to that country, and by degrees laid the seeds of doctrines subsequently taken up by Peter Bruysius, and afterwards by Henry and by Peter Valdo, the founder of the Waldenses, and by others in other places. Availing themselves of the various Caliphs' tolerance of all Christian sects, they .carried their opinions with their commerce into Africa, Spain, and finally into Languedoc, a neighbouring province, to Moorish...
Página 214 - ... part of the whole population of Europe, and occupied more than half its territory, began to be sensible that they might claim for themselves a position, to which they had not hitherto aspired. The opinion gained ground ; and the question now is, whether the...
Página 184 - Janco's wife, do thou pick up these golden rings, and wear them ; but if any other dares to touch one of them, I will cut off her arm at a blow.
Página 213 - Greece differed from each other, like those of his own language, and yet that they formed only one Hellenic literature. The idea of an intellectual union of all those nations naturally led to that of a political one ; and the Sclavonians, seeing that their numbers amounted to about one-third part of the whole population of Europe, and occupied more than half its territory, began to be sensible that they might claim for themselves a position, to which they had not hitherto aspired. " The opinion gained...
Página 287 - ... throne of that country. The former called the Turks to his assistance ; Ostoya, the Hungarians. A war between these two nations was the consequence, and the Turks gained considerable footing in Bosnia about 1415. Ostoya and Tuartko being both dead, Stephen Thomas Christich was elected King, and was obliged to promise an annual tribute of 25,000 ducats to Sultan Amurath II., thirteen years after which he was murdered by his illegitimate son, Stephen Thomasovich, who was crowned by a Papal legate...
Página 213 - The idea of Panslavism had a purely literary origin. It was started by Kollar, a Protestant clergyman of the Sclavonic congregation at Pesth, in Hungary, who wished to establish a national literature by circulating all works, written in the various Sclavonic dialects, through every country where any of them are spoken. He suggested that all the Sclavonic literati should become acquainted with the sister dialects...

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