Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . vered the place up to pillage, and put to death overeighty thousand persons. He also invaded Syria, and took Damascus. Inthis career of conquest the Greek emperor and some inferior princes imploredhis assistance against Bajazet, emperor of the Turks, whom he marched against,and after a battle of three days the Turkish emperor was defe
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . vered the place up to pillage, and put to death overeighty thousand persons. He also invaded Syria, and took Damascus. Inthis career of conquest the Greek emperor and some inferior princes imploredhis assistance against Bajazet, emperor of the Turks, whom he marched against,and after a battle of three days the Turkish emperor was defeated and takenprisoner. Tamerlane fixed the seat of his vast empire at Samarcand, wherehe received the homage of numerous sovereigns, and among the rest the em-bassadors of the emperor Manuel Paleologus and Henry III., king of died in 1405. Tamerlane conducted his government alone and withoutfavorites, but was in the highest degree fierce and fanatical in his religion;and, although no conquests were ever attended with greater cruelty, devastation,and waste of human life, he affected the title of benefactor to mankind. Hap-pily, his ambition was too gigantic for its consequences to last, and his domin-ions rapidly became divided as before. T\M R. Portrait of Tamerlane.—From a miniature painted in India. 70 GUTTEMBURG, FAUST, AND SCHCEFFER. EARLIEST PRINTERS.
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