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... seemed destined by nature to connect the Eastern and the Western Worlds . During many ages , accordingly , she was the chief maritime and commercial State of Europe . At the beginning of the fifteenth century more than 3,300 Venetian ...
... seemed destined by nature to connect the Eastern and the Western Worlds . During many ages , accordingly , she was the chief maritime and commercial State of Europe . At the beginning of the fifteenth century more than 3,300 Venetian ...
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... seemed disposed to break this agreement also ; but scarcely had the reappearance of danger from the further success of the Venetians again obliged him to throw himself into the arms of Sforza , when he was suddenly carried off by a ...
... seemed disposed to break this agreement also ; but scarcely had the reappearance of danger from the further success of the Venetians again obliged him to throw himself into the arms of Sforza , when he was suddenly carried off by a ...
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... seemed to fill up the measure of Henry's prosperity , when he was carried off by a fistula , August 31st , 1422. Henry appointed his brother the Duke of Bedford to the Regency of France ; his younger brother , the Duke of Gloucester ...
... seemed to fill up the measure of Henry's prosperity , when he was carried off by a fistula , August 31st , 1422. Henry appointed his brother the Duke of Bedford to the Regency of France ; his younger brother , the Duke of Gloucester ...
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... seemed to promise the success of the latter ; and it will be an interesting task to trace how the wise and politic conduct of one or two French Monarchs enabled them to combat all these disadvantages and finally to turn the scale in ...
... seemed to promise the success of the latter ; and it will be an interesting task to trace how the wise and politic conduct of one or two French Monarchs enabled them to combat all these disadvantages and finally to turn the scale in ...
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... seemed to secure the rights and privileges of the Peratian colonists . In the preamble Mahomet swore to observe the treaty3 by God and the Prophet , by the seven volumes of the faith , by the 124,000 prophets , by the souls of his ...
... seemed to secure the rights and privileges of the Peratian colonists . In the preamble Mahomet swore to observe the treaty3 by God and the Prophet , by the seven volumes of the faith , by the 124,000 prophets , by the souls of his ...
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Page 383 - Brescia, who lived at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, and died 1510, at Bergamo, at a very advanced age.