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. 1834 Excerpt: ... but, faithful to their alliance with the empire, which had made the greatest exertions and sacrifices to preserve their friendship, they every where appeared in the character of soldiers of the emperors; their numerous petty sovereigns solicited imperial dignities; their highest ambition was to rise at the court of ...
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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. 1834 Excerpt: ... but, faithful to their alliance with the empire, which had made the greatest exertions and sacrifices to preserve their friendship, they every where appeared in the character of soldiers of the emperors; their numerous petty sovereigns solicited imperial dignities; their highest ambition was to rise at the court of the sons of Theodosius; and they had learned how to combine the arts of intrigue with valour. If they oppressed and despoiled the peasantry upon whom they were quartered; if, in a sudden burst of fury, or in a fit of rapacity, they fell upon large cities; if even Treves, the capital of all the Gauls, and Cologne, the chief town of Lower Germany, were on several occasions pillaged by them, the emperors and their prefects were too sensible of the importance of their Frankic allies to cherish long resentment, and peace was soon concluded at the expense of the defenceless sufferers. The Burgundians in eastern Gaul, the Visigoths in southern, also called themselves the soldiers of the emperors. Their condition was, however, very different from that of the Franks j the entire nation had transmigrated into a new abode, without acknowledging any fixed limits: it had extended its dominion wherever it could make its power feared. The king of the Burgundians sometimes held his court at Vienne, on the Rhone, sometimes at Lyons or Geneva; the kings of the Visigoths at Narbonne, at Bordeaux, or oftener at Toulouse: the city was subject to them, yet Roman magistrates still continued to regulate the police, and to administer justice according to Roman laws, and in favour of Roman subjects. The Visigoths and the Burgundians had appropriated lands either waste, or taken from the original proprietors without many formalities; these were abandoned to their flocks a...
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