...desperate adventurers, who sighed in the laziness of peace, and smiled in the agonies of death. Piracy was the exercise, the trade, the glory, and the virtue,...grasped their arms, sounded their horn, ascended their vessels, • and explored every coast that promised either spoil or settlement. The Baltic was the...

...defeat, not only any traitorous attempt on the imperial person, but to quell open rebellions, unless such were supported by a great proportion of the military...other northern champions, who, long before the time of Comnenns, made excursions as far as Constantinople, and witnessed with their own eyes the wealth and...

...the history of human nature, drove forth upon the pathless ocean. " Piracy," says Gibbon, with hia usual spirit, " was the exercise, the trade, the glory,...explored every coast that promised either spoil or settle* The conquests made in France and Britain by these wild sea-kings, as they were called, have...

...ocean. "Piracy," says Gibbon, with his usual spirit, " was the exercise, the trade, the glory, and tho virtue of the Scandinavian youth. Impatient of a bleak...explored every coast that promised either spoil or settle> ment."*' The conquests made in France and Britain by these wild sea-kings, as they were called,...

...history of the even if interpreted literally, indicate at North must be drawn.— G. '-01.. vn. o tient of a bleak climate and narrow limits, they started from the banquet, «rasped their arms, sounded their horn, ascended their vessels, and explored every coast that promised...

...defeat, not only any traitorous attempt on the imperial person, but to quell open rebellions, unless such were supported by a great proportion of the military...every coast that promised either spoil or settlement." * * Decline and Fall of the Eoman Empire ; chap. Iv. vol. x. p. 221, 8vo edition. The conquests made...

...has since been renowned throughout the world under the appellation of Northmen or Normans. " Piracy was the exercise, the trade, the glory, and the virtue...grasped their arms, sounded their horn, ascended their vessels, and explored every coast that promised either spoil or settlement. The Baltic was the first...

...our inquiry. 2* B l8 ENGLISH LITERATURE. Saxons, began to leave their homes for foreign conquest. " Impatient of a bleak climate and narrow limits, they...every coast that promised either spoil or settlement." 1 To England they came as Danes; to France, as Northmen or Normans. They took advantage of the Saxon...

...the hardy strangers disturbed themselves hut little about the light in which they were regarded hy the inhabitants of Constantinople. Their dress and...banquet, grasped their arms, sounded their horn, ascended thoir ships, and explored every coast that promised either spoil or settlement." * * Decline and Fall...

...defeat not only any traitorous attempt on the imperial person, but to quell open rebellions, unless such were supported by a great proportion of the military...every coast that promised either spoil or settlement." f The conquests made in France and Britain by these wild sea-kings, t Da-line and Fall of Che Human...