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... seemed all at once to burst its shackles , and to march forth to new conquests . It was the age which showed the way . Columbus discovered a new hemisphere , Copernicus a new system of the universe , Bacon a new method of all sciences ...
... seemed all at once to burst its shackles , and to march forth to new conquests . It was the age which showed the way . Columbus discovered a new hemisphere , Copernicus a new system of the universe , Bacon a new method of all sciences ...
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... seemed no improbable event . Master of Germany , Spain , the Netherlands , a great part of Italy , besides his possessions in the Indies , that Monarch seemed to encircle the earth with his power , and to threaten the liberties of all ...
... seemed no improbable event . Master of Germany , Spain , the Netherlands , a great part of Italy , besides his possessions in the Indies , that Monarch seemed to encircle the earth with his power , and to threaten the liberties of all ...
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... seemed on the point of dissolution . It had not . attempted to make settlements and build forts , and had contented itself with establishing a few factories at Bantam and along the coasts of Malabar and Coromandel . It had , however ...
... seemed on the point of dissolution . It had not . attempted to make settlements and build forts , and had contented itself with establishing a few factories at Bantam and along the coasts of Malabar and Coromandel . It had , however ...
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... seemed at this period as if the French , under the conduct of Labourdonnaye and Dupleix , would have appropriated India ; but the bad understanding between those commanders prevented the success which they might otherwise have achieved ...
... seemed at this period as if the French , under the conduct of Labourdonnaye and Dupleix , would have appropriated India ; but the bad understanding between those commanders prevented the success which they might otherwise have achieved ...
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... seemed to assume a milder and more chronic form than in the exciting period of the Reformation . Instead of the Anabap- tists and their atrocious absurdities , we find the Pietists and the Moravian Brethren . Even the Roman Catholic ...
... seemed to assume a milder and more chronic form than in the exciting period of the Reformation . Instead of the Anabap- tists and their atrocious absurdities , we find the Pietists and the Moravian Brethren . Even the Roman Catholic ...
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