A History of the World with All Its Great Sensations: Together with Its Mighty and Decisive Battles and the Rise and Fall of Its Nations from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Volume 1 |
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... carried on by Claudius ..... of 1812 ... Vatican , Bismarck makes concessions to the .. Washington , city of , burned . Venice .... Verdun , siege of .. Washington , General George .. appointed commissioner .. Versailles occupied by the ...
... carried on by Claudius ..... of 1812 ... Vatican , Bismarck makes concessions to the .. Washington , city of , burned . Venice .... Verdun , siege of .. Washington , General George .. appointed commissioner .. Versailles occupied by the ...
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... carried on an inland trade ; the dwellers on the shores , a coasting trade . At first , man ex- changed one article for another ( barter ) , and it was not till a later period that it occurred to them to fix a certain value upon the ...
... carried on an inland trade ; the dwellers on the shores , a coasting trade . At first , man ex- changed one article for another ( barter ) , and it was not till a later period that it occurred to them to fix a certain value upon the ...
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... carried away the king and the chief inhabitants , oppressing them with a heavy hand . The last king , Zedekiah , tried the chances of war with Nebu- chadnezzar , but was routed , and borne away with the greater part of his people into ...
... carried away the king and the chief inhabitants , oppressing them with a heavy hand . The last king , Zedekiah , tried the chances of war with Nebu- chadnezzar , but was routed , and borne away with the greater part of his people into ...
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... carried off Helen , wife of the Lacedæmonian King , Menelaus , who had hospitably received him . The injured husband summoned the princes of Greece to undertake an expedition to revenge the affront . This expedition shortly after took ...
... carried off Helen , wife of the Lacedæmonian King , Menelaus , who had hospitably received him . The injured husband summoned the princes of Greece to undertake an expedition to revenge the affront . This expedition shortly after took ...
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... carried down to posterity . The ruling passion of Alexander , even from his tender years , was ambition . He refused to take part in the Olympic games unless kings were to be his antagonists . Every time that the news came to him that ...
... carried down to posterity . The ruling passion of Alexander , even from his tender years , was ambition . He refused to take part in the Olympic games unless kings were to be his antagonists . Every time that the news came to him that ...
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Page 118 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 271 - ... fortunes and their own at the end! of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries in all the courts of western Europe.
Page 291 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 257 - For I assure you I have often kneeled before him in his privy chamber...
Page 258 - Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed therefore that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty.
Page 260 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 444 - The paths of glory lead but to the grave " — must have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
Page 291 - ... midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman...
Page 507 - After various messages, a convention for the surrender of the army was settled, which provided that " The troops under General Burgoyne were to march out of their camp with the honors of war, and the artillery of the intrenchments, to the verge of the river, where the arms and artillery were to be left.
Page 439 - Kensington, in the fiftieth year of her age, and the thirteenth of her reign. Her easy temper and her faultless domestic life gained her the epithet of