The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and Government from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times, Volume 1Bradbury and Evans, 1856 - Great Britain |
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Page xii
... give him Hume . " Many of the materials for " The Popular History of England " had been collected and arranged before these remarks were published . I had long desired to write a History of the People ; a history which should not merely ...
... give him Hume . " Many of the materials for " The Popular History of England " had been collected and arranged before these remarks were published . I had long desired to write a History of the People ; a history which should not merely ...
Page xii
... gives us the history of our country to 1689. More than a century and a half of the most instructive history of modern times is to be sought in professed " Continuations , " which , if they are free from the taint of Hume's manifold ...
... gives us the history of our country to 1689. More than a century and a half of the most instructive history of modern times is to be sought in professed " Continuations , " which , if they are free from the taint of Hume's manifold ...
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... give the passage thus : - " Utuntur aut ære aut nummo aureo aut annulis ferreis ad certum pondus examinatis pro nummo ; " from which is derived the opposite conclusion - that they had brass and silver money . See Remarks on the Ancient ...
... give the passage thus : - " Utuntur aut ære aut nummo aureo aut annulis ferreis ad certum pondus examinatis pro nummo ; " from which is derived the opposite conclusion - that they had brass and silver money . See Remarks on the Ancient ...
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... gives the names of fifty - six towns in Britain . That many of these existed before the Roman occupation , we may well believe . Agricola assisted the people in carrying forward the principle of large associations , and invited them to ...
... gives the names of fifty - six towns in Britain . That many of these existed before the Roman occupation , we may well believe . Agricola assisted the people in carrying forward the principle of large associations , and invited them to ...
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... give energetic council to the timorous natives , and leave them patterns by which to manufacture arms , " we seem to be reading an account of some remote tribe , to whom the Roman sword and buckler were as unfamiliar as the musket was ...
... give energetic council to the timorous natives , and leave them patterns by which to manufacture arms , " we seem to be reading an account of some remote tribe , to whom the Roman sword and buckler were as unfamiliar as the musket was ...
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