Outlines of History: With Original Tables, Chronological, Genealogical and LiteraryClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger., 1870 - 238 من الصفحات |
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... LORD MAHON : History of the War of the Succession . VOLTAIRE : History of Charles XII . I. During the first ( the glorious ) part of the Reign of Louis XIV . 1660 MOLIÈRE ( 1622-1675 ) 1662 Colbert ( 1619-1683 ) 1664 Montecuculi ( 1608 ...
... LORD MAHON : History of the War of the Succession . VOLTAIRE : History of Charles XII . I. During the first ( the glorious ) part of the Reign of Louis XIV . 1660 MOLIÈRE ( 1622-1675 ) 1662 Colbert ( 1619-1683 ) 1664 Montecuculi ( 1608 ...
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... Lord Chatham ( 1708-1778 ) The Empire England George I Charles VI Ch VII Francis I George II Louis France Spain AIX g . g . 8 . Louis XV Philip V Turkey Ahmed III neph . Mahmoud I 8 . Ferdinand VI Russia Peter the Great wife g . s ...
... Lord Chatham ( 1708-1778 ) The Empire England George I Charles VI Ch VII Francis I George II Louis France Spain AIX g . g . 8 . Louis XV Philip V Turkey Ahmed III neph . Mahmoud I 8 . Ferdinand VI Russia Peter the Great wife g . s ...
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... Lord , ( 1697-1762 , ) a celebrated naval commander . In 1739 he was appointed commodore of an expedition against the Spanish settlements in the Pacific Ocean . On this journey he doubled Cape Horn , crossed the Southern Ocean for China ...
... Lord , ( 1697-1762 , ) a celebrated naval commander . In 1739 he was appointed commodore of an expedition against the Spanish settlements in the Pacific Ocean . On this journey he doubled Cape Horn , crossed the Southern Ocean for China ...
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... lord keeper was given him in 1617 , and soon afterward he was made lord chancellor , Baron Verulam , and Viscount St. Albans . But from this time dates the beginning of his miserable fall . Complaints were made of his venality as a ...
... lord keeper was given him in 1617 , and soon afterward he was made lord chancellor , Baron Verulam , and Viscount St. Albans . But from this time dates the beginning of his miserable fall . Complaints were made of his venality as a ...
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... lords . After six Italian campaigns , he finally made peace with the Pope and the towns of Lombardy . In 1188 he assumed the Cross , set out in the following year on the Third Crusade , was opposed on the march by the Greek emperor and ...
... lords . After six Italian campaigns , he finally made peace with the Pope and the towns of Lombardy . In 1188 he assumed the Cross , set out in the following year on the Third Crusade , was opposed on the march by the Greek emperor and ...
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الصفحة 167 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three...
الصفحة 136 - Shakspeare is the chief of all Poets hitherto ; the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world, has left record of himself in the way of Literature. On the whole, I know not such a power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters of it, in any other man. Such a calmness of depth; placid joyous strength; all things imaged in that great soul of his so true and clear, as in a tranquil unfathomable sea!
الصفحة 167 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
الصفحة 189 - The human avalanche, which for thirteen years had alarmed the nations from the Danube to the Ebro, from the Seine to the Po, rested beneath the sod or toiled under the yoke of slavery ; the forlorn hope of the German migrations had performed its duty ; the homeless people of the Cimbri and their comrades were no more.
الصفحة 139 - ... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas...
الصفحة 146 - According to the legend, the first of the Christian emperors was healed of the leprosy, and purified in the waters of baptism, by St Silvester, the Roman bishop ; and never was physician more gloriously recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St Peter ; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East ; and resigned to the popes the free and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West f . This fiction was productive of the most...
الصفحة 132 - ... special stamp of either calling, uniting Hellenic culture with the fullest national feeling of a Roman, an accomplished speaker and of graceful manners — Publius Scipio won the hearts of soldiers and of women, of his countrymen and of the Spaniards, of his rivals in the senate and of his greater Carthaginian antagonist.
الصفحة 29 - The patriarch appears here as the. head of a small confederacy of chiefs, powerful enough to venture on a long pursuit to the head of the valley of the Jordan, to attack with success a large force, and not only to rescue Lot, but to roll back for a time the stream of northern immigration. His high position is seen in the gratitude of the people, and the dignity with which he refuses the character of a hireling. That it did...
الصفحة 82 - ALRASCHID, a celebrated caliph of the Saracens, ascended the throne in 786, and was the most potent prince of his race, ruling over territories extending from Egypt to Khorassan. He gained many splendid victories over the Greek emperors, and obtained immense renown lor his bravery, magnificence, and love of letters ; but he was cruel and tyrannical. D. 808. HARPER, ROBERT GOODLOK, was a native of Virginia, but when very young removed with his parents to North Carolina.
الصفحة 77 - ... Trade Settlements. — The reign of James I. is signalized by the commencement of that system of colonization which has resulted in the establishment of the English race in almost every quarter of the globe. In the year 1607 Jamestown, so named in honor of the king, was founded in Virginia. This was the first permanent English settlement within the limits of the United States. In 1620 some Separatists, or Pilgrims, who had found in Holland a temporary refuge from persecution, pushed across the...