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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... those men , who first inhabited the earth ; nor is any event fo apt to infpire us with wonder as the difproportion between their lives and ours . Few now arrive at 80 or 100 years ; whereas , from the joint teftimony of facred and ...
... those men , who first inhabited the earth ; nor is any event fo apt to infpire us with wonder as the difproportion between their lives and ours . Few now arrive at 80 or 100 years ; whereas , from the joint teftimony of facred and ...
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... those of his species , " but always joined by affection to one party , while he is " poffibly oppofed to another ; employed in the exercife of " recollection and forefight ; inclined to communicate his " own fentiments , and to be made ...
... those of his species , " but always joined by affection to one party , while he is " poffibly oppofed to another ; employed in the exercife of " recollection and forefight ; inclined to communicate his " own fentiments , and to be made ...
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... those times confifted in clearing the ground , and extirpating thofe favage animals , which held mankind under continual alarms , and hindered them from enlarging their habitations . Nimrod acquiring great reputation in this way , is ...
... those times confifted in clearing the ground , and extirpating thofe favage animals , which held mankind under continual alarms , and hindered them from enlarging their habitations . Nimrod acquiring great reputation in this way , is ...
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... those bodies , appears evidently to have been the purpose for which it was built , and raifed to fuch a myfterious height . That it was made fubfervient to that end , we have the authority of Diodorus . This intelligent hiftorian alfo ...
... those bodies , appears evidently to have been the purpose for which it was built , and raifed to fuch a myfterious height . That it was made fubfervient to that end , we have the authority of Diodorus . This intelligent hiftorian alfo ...
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... those luminaries * . Hence from the unhappy conjunction of the aftronomical science with priest- craft , Solar or Star - worship , and Judicial Aftrology , were propagated over the Eaft in very ancient times , and paved the way for ...
... those luminaries * . Hence from the unhappy conjunction of the aftronomical science with priest- craft , Solar or Star - worship , and Judicial Aftrology , were propagated over the Eaft in very ancient times , and paved the way for ...
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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.