. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. lover ; assaulted with words and blows her son Basil,as he stood silent and submissive in the presence of a superior colleague; andavowed her own prostitution in proclaiming the illegitimacy of his public indignation was appeased by her exile and the punishment of themeaner accomplices ; the death of an unpopular prince was forgiven ; andthe guilt of Zimisces was forgotten in the splendour of his virtues. Perhapsh
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. lover ; assaulted with words and blows her son Basil,as he stood silent and submissive in the presence of a superior colleague; andavowed her own prostitution in proclaiming the illegitimacy of his public indignation was appeased by her exile and the punishment of themeaner accomplices ; the death of an unpopular prince was forgiven ; andthe guilt of Zimisces was forgotten in the splendour of his virtues. Perhapshis profusion was less useful to the state than the avarice of Nicephorus ;but his gentle and generous behaviour delighted all who approached hisperson ; and it was only in the paths of victory that he trod in the footstepsof his predecessor. The greatest part of his reign was employed in the campand the field. His personal valour and activity were signalised on the Dan-ube and the Tigris, the ancient boundaries of the Roman world ; and by hisdouble triumph over the Russians and the Saracens, he deserved the titles ofsaviour of the empire and conqueror of the CHAPTER VIIIGLORY AND DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE -1204 ] The Russian war was the great event of the reign of Joannes military fame of the Byzantine emperor, who was unquestionably theablest general of his time, the greatness of the Russian nation, whose powernow overshadows Europe, the scene of the contest, destined in our day to beagain the battle-field of Russian armies, and the political interest whichattaches to the first attempt of a Russian prince to march by land to Con-stantinople, all combine to give a practical as well as a romantic interestto this war. The first Russian naval expedition against Constantinople in 865 wouldprobably have been followed by a series of plundering excursions, like thosecarried on by the Danes and Normans or the coasts of England and France,had not the Turkish tribe
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