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frequently to be quite illegible. And it is true ofthe lower Lombard, that if he conferred unlimitedindependence on all his citizens, he denied anywhatever to those he held unworthy of being ad-mitted into his citizenship. Regarding the Nor-mans, why not rather sympathize with theirmatchless valour, than with the paltry natives,who, to clear their home from robbers and pirates,were obliged to have recourse to a handful ofstrangers? Not satisfied with Puglia and Calabria,and the honour of having put two emperors (boththe western and eastern) to flight, Guiscard under-took to become Emperor of Constantinople himself;and, on his way, died in Cephalonia in 1085. Be-ginning with him, and ending with the Vespers, isit not all over ? Who cares any more for MagnaGrecia or Sicily? The brilliant Norman phantas-magoria has nothing in common with the lands inwhich it passes. But to all similar, farewell! andto philosophy, Christianity, or any religion, oranything of humanity, farewell the whole of you!Here resounds the shriek of shrieks 1 Here comesthe king of unutterable terrors—Attila.

Illiterate, direst of savages, as yet buried in allthe grossness of idolatry, reckless of every humantie or obligation, or pain or pleasure, here are theHuns who through Hungary, Bulgaria, Sclavonia,