Vulgar words in The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 - (From Barbarossa to Dante) (Page 1)
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Before them was the Patriarch himself, "without bag or money, or stick or shoes, with but one coat," says Nicetas, "like a true apostle, or rather like a true follower of Jesus Christ, in that he was seated on an ass, with the difference that instead of entering the new Zion in triumph he was leaving it."
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The figure of an ass and its driver, which Augustus had had cast in bronze to commemorate the news brought to him of the victory of Actium, met with the same fate.
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A considerable English contingent came also, headed by Otto's bastard uncle, William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury.
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The blood-feud was abolished; widows obtained a dower; bastards were no longer to inherit; and in default of heirs male in the direct line, daughters were allowed to inherit.
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He forbids the extravagant payments usually made on such occasions to buffoons, mimics, and players.