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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... raised them in the moral and social scale . They want to know how the great work of the elevation of industry has progressed from age to age in past times , and from year to year in our times . They want to learn the history of the ...
... raised them in the moral and social scale . They want to know how the great work of the elevation of industry has progressed from age to age in past times , and from year to year in our times . They want to learn the history of the ...
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... raised cattle in great numbers : -a naval people , with boats , and probably vessels of burden , sailing far away ... raising me- morials of the dead in earth - works that rival the wonders of modern engineering . Their priests were ...
... raised cattle in great numbers : -a naval people , with boats , and probably vessels of burden , sailing far away ... raising me- morials of the dead in earth - works that rival the wonders of modern engineering . Their priests were ...
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... raised upon very solid foundations . There is a lofty hill in Shropshire , near the junction of the Clun and the Teme , which still bears the name of Caer - Caradoc , the town of Caradoc . Caradoc was Caractacus . Tacitus has described ...
... raised upon very solid foundations . There is a lofty hill in Shropshire , near the junction of the Clun and the Teme , which still bears the name of Caer - Caradoc , the town of Caradoc . Caradoc was Caractacus . Tacitus has described ...
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... raising in them that read other conceptions of those times and persons than were true . " * And yet the speeches which Tacitus puts into the mouths of Caractacus , and Boadicea , and Galgacus , were certainly intended to present true ...
... raising in them that read other conceptions of those times and persons than were true . " * And yet the speeches which Tacitus puts into the mouths of Caractacus , and Boadicea , and Galgacus , were certainly intended to present true ...
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... raised temples to strange gods whom their own sacred priesthood despised . They came for vengeance ; but their triumph was of short duration . The locality where Suetonius , with his ten thousand legionaries , in serried ranks ...
... raised temples to strange gods whom their own sacred priesthood despised . They came for vengeance ; but their triumph was of short duration . The locality where Suetonius , with his ten thousand legionaries , in serried ranks ...
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