. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. oun attained the summit of worldly pro-sperity, and was certainly the richest and mostpotent sovereign of his time. The French his-torians mention a splendid embassy which hesent to Charlemagne, which, among other pre-sents, brought a magnificent tent, a water-clock, an elephant, and the keys of the holysepulchre at Jerusalem, denoting permission forEuropean pilgrims to visit it. In common withthe western monarch, he
. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. oun attained the summit of worldly pro-sperity, and was certainly the richest and mostpotent sovereign of his time. The French his-torians mention a splendid embassy which hesent to Charlemagne, which, among other pre-sents, brought a magnificent tent, a water-clock, an elephant, and the keys of the holysepulchre at Jerusalem, denoting permission forEuropean pilgrims to visit it. In common withthe western monarch, he adopted the plan ofmaking a division of his extensive dominions be-tween his three sons—a fertile source of futurecivil wars. Jjike him, too, he passed a life ofgreat activity, freijuenily visiting his most (ii-stant province*. His principal residence was afavourite palace at Racca on the a return from an expedition to quiet somecommotions in Persia, he was seized with greatdejection of spirits, and an apprehension of soonfalling into some mortal distemper. By properremedies he was almost recovered, when therevolt of a captain named Rafe ebn Leith in the.
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