A View of Universal History, from the Creation to the Present Time: Including an Account of the Celebrated Revolutions in France, Poland, Sweden, Geneva &c. &c. Together with an Accurate and Impartial Narrative of the Late Military Operations; and Other Important Events, Volym 1G. Kearsley, 1795 |
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... gave it the name of France - Clovis , and the Merovingian race of kings . -- CHAP . LVII . P. 303 . Carlovingian race - Pepin -- Charlemagne -- His heroic enter- prizes and exploits - He encourages learning and the arts - His beautiful ...
... gave it the name of France - Clovis , and the Merovingian race of kings . -- CHAP . LVII . P. 303 . Carlovingian race - Pepin -- Charlemagne -- His heroic enter- prizes and exploits - He encourages learning and the arts - His beautiful ...
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... gave birth to a gigantic race of men , who degenerating into impious practices , broke through all the restraints of modefty and duty . The depra- vity and wickednefs of mankind , therefore , daily increafing , the fupreme Being ...
... gave birth to a gigantic race of men , who degenerating into impious practices , broke through all the restraints of modefty and duty . The depra- vity and wickednefs of mankind , therefore , daily increafing , the fupreme Being ...
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... gave it birth , and providence whoie continues to govern it . The Chaldeans are fuppofed to have owed their early pro- ficiency in aftronomy , partly to the early civilization of Aƒ- fyria , and partly to the nature of the country ...
... gave it birth , and providence whoie continues to govern it . The Chaldeans are fuppofed to have owed their early pro- ficiency in aftronomy , partly to the early civilization of Aƒ- fyria , and partly to the nature of the country ...
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... gave him letters to the priests , ordering them to communicate their knowledge to him . He went first to thofe of Helliopolis , who referred him to the college at Memphis as their feniors ; and from Memphis he was fent under the fame ...
... gave him letters to the priests , ordering them to communicate their knowledge to him . He went first to thofe of Helliopolis , who referred him to the college at Memphis as their feniors ; and from Memphis he was fent under the fame ...
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... gave the inhabitants for a fpoil to the Perfians . After a reign of thirty - fix years , he declared Xerxes his fucceffor , and died . Xerxes invaded Greece with an innumerable army , re- folving to reduce it all under his fubjection ...
... gave the inhabitants for a fpoil to the Perfians . After a reign of thirty - fix years , he declared Xerxes his fucceffor , and died . Xerxes invaded Greece with an innumerable army , re- folving to reduce it all under his fubjection ...
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Sida 244 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Sida 411 - No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Sida 374 - III. The nation is essentially the source of all sovereignty; nor can any individual, or any body of men, be entitled to any authority which is not expressly derived from it.
Sida 195 - Caesar now commanded the cohorts to pursue their success, and advancing, charged Pompey's troops upon the flank ; this charge the enemy withstood for some time with great bravery, till he brought up his third line, which had not yet engaged. Pompey's infantry being thus doubly attacked, in front by fresh troops and in rear by the victorious cohorts, could no longer resist, but fled to their camp. The...
Sida 432 - It is you," continued he to the members, " that have forced me upon this. I have sought the Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon this work.
Sida 283 - Very faint vestiges of the Roman policy, jurisprudence, arts, or literature remained. New forms of government, new laws, new manners, new dresses, new languages, and new names of men and countries, were every where introduced.
Sida 432 - For shame," said he to the parliament, "get you gone; give place to honester men; to those who will more faithfully discharge their trust. You are no longer a parliament : I tell you, you are no longer a parliament. The Lord has done with you : he has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work.
Sida 346 - sat on every face ; silence, as in the dead of night, reigned through all the chambers of the royal apartment ; the ladies and courtiers were ranged on each side...
Sida 196 - Achilles, the commander of the forces, and Septimius, by birth a Roman, and who had formerly been a centurion in Pompey's army, were appointed to carry -their opinion into execution.
Sida 194 - Caesar's soldiers were now rushing on with their usual impetuosity, when, perceiving the enemy motionless, they all stopped short, as if by general consent, and halted in the midst of their career. A terrible pause ensued, in which both armies continued to gaze upon each other with mutual terror and dreadful serenity.