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 . the senate, chief, Augustus, and pontifex maximus. Con-stantine had married his daughter to Licinius ; but the latter, jealous of hisfame, took up arms against him, and they met in Pannonia, A. D. 314. Con-stantine, surrounded by bishops and priests, invoked the aid of the true God;while Licinius, calling upon his soothsayers and magi
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 . the senate, chief, Augustus, and pontifex maximus. Con-stantine had married his daughter to Licinius ; but the latter, jealous of hisfame, took up arms against him, and they met in Pannonia, A. D. 314. Con-stantine, surrounded by bishops and priests, invoked the aid of the true God;while Licinius, calling upon his soothsayers and magicians, relied on them andtheir gods for protection. The Christian emperor was victorious, and a peacewas granted to Licinius ; but he afterward renewed hostilities, was again de-feated, and finally put to death. Thus Constantine became, in 325, sole headof the eastern and western empires ; and his first care was the establishmentof peace and order. He displayed great courage and love of justice, and evincedan ardent zeal for the Christian religion, which he eventually established inhis vast dominions. He also endeavored to increase the solid greatness ofhis empire, and among other useful works, founded the city of Constantinople ac CONSTANT1NE THE «-J C a«>•* as O SAINT PATRICK. 51 This magnificent city (a view of which is given on the opposite page) was wonfrom the degenerate Greeks by Mohammed II. in 1453, and is now the capitalof the Turkish empire. The ground it occupies is marked out by nature asthe site of a great city. A gently declining promontory, secured by narrowseas, at the east of Europe, stretches out to meet the continent of Asia, fromwhich its extreme point is separated by so narrow a strait that m a quarter ofan hour a boat can row from one continent to the other. This strait or chan-nel, which is called the Bosphorus, runningabout fifteen miles from the Blacksea, between the beautiful shores of Europe and Asia, looks like a stately river,until i
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