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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... land - tax - Battle of Haftings - Arts , manners and cuftoms of the Anglo Saxons . Danes and Britons . P. 40 * CHAP . LXXVIII . William the Conqueror - Doomfday - books - Origin of the wars between England and France Murder of Becket ...
... land - tax - Battle of Haftings - Arts , manners and cuftoms of the Anglo Saxons . Danes and Britons . P. 40 * CHAP . LXXVIII . William the Conqueror - Doomfday - books - Origin of the wars between England and France Murder of Becket ...
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... Land of Eden . This great event of the formation of the world , before which there was neither matter nor form of any thing , is placed according to the beft chronologers , in the year before Chrift 4004 ; and in 710th year of what is ...
... Land of Eden . This great event of the formation of the world , before which there was neither matter nor form of any thing , is placed according to the beft chronologers , in the year before Chrift 4004 ; and in 710th year of what is ...
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... land was dry and habitable , Noah turned out all kinds of creatures into the filent , wild , and defolate earth , there to propagate their fpecies ; whilft himself and family the only remains of the great fhipwreck of human kind ...
... land was dry and habitable , Noah turned out all kinds of creatures into the filent , wild , and defolate earth , there to propagate their fpecies ; whilft himself and family the only remains of the great fhipwreck of human kind ...
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... land , with iflands , mountains , and hills . The greatest part of the abyfs , he conjectures , confti- tuted our prefent ocean , and thus the reft filled up the cavi- ties of the earth . I This This hypothefis , however , is liable to ...
... land , with iflands , mountains , and hills . The greatest part of the abyfs , he conjectures , confti- tuted our prefent ocean , and thus the reft filled up the cavi- ties of the earth . I This This hypothefis , however , is liable to ...
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... land is afcertained , and placed under the guardianfhip of laws . Agriculture is profecuted ; metals are difcovered , and mines worked . Genius is called forth by emulation ; and arts and sciences are invented . The political union ...
... land is afcertained , and placed under the guardianfhip of laws . Agriculture is profecuted ; metals are difcovered , and mines worked . Genius is called forth by emulation ; and arts and sciences are invented . The political union ...
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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.