A Compendium of the History of All Nations: Exhibiting a Concise View of the Origin, Progress, Decline and Fall of the Most Considerable Empires, Kingdoms, and States of the World, from the Earliest Times to the Present Period. Interspersed with a Short Account of the Prevailing Religions. Ornamented with a Frontispiece... and Three Other Plates |
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Page 36
... churches , and demolish the holy sepulchre at Jerusalem . These threats were however disregarded ; therefore , as his last resource , he fitted out a fleet in the Red Sea , in order to attack the Portuguese ships wherever they appeared ...
... churches , and demolish the holy sepulchre at Jerusalem . These threats were however disregarded ; therefore , as his last resource , he fitted out a fleet in the Red Sea , in order to attack the Portuguese ships wherever they appeared ...
Page 84
... church , but was opposed in all his measures by Becket , archbishop of Canterbury . The Roman pontiff , and the king of France , espoused the caue of this haughty prelate . - Henry , dreading the sentence of excommunication , submitted ...
... church , but was opposed in all his measures by Becket , archbishop of Canterbury . The Roman pontiff , and the king of France , espoused the caue of this haughty prelate . - Henry , dreading the sentence of excommunication , submitted ...
Page 91
... church of Rome . His doc- trines prepared for a subsequent revolution of opinions ; but he had few open followers . The intemperate pas- sions of Henry were the immediate cause of the reforma- tion in England . His affections having ...
... church of Rome . His doc- trines prepared for a subsequent revolution of opinions ; but he had few open followers . The intemperate pas- sions of Henry were the immediate cause of the reforma- tion in England . His affections having ...
Page 92
... church of Rome , for the assassination of Elizabeth , and the es- tablishment of popery , to which Mary was accused of being privy , brought this amiable , accomplished , but unfortunate queen to the scaffold , A. D. 1587 , a victim to ...
... church of Rome , for the assassination of Elizabeth , and the es- tablishment of popery , to which Mary was accused of being privy , brought this amiable , accomplished , but unfortunate queen to the scaffold , A. D. 1587 , a victim to ...
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... church ; but all sorts of religions are either connived at or tolerated . The king of Great- Britian is acknowledged as supreme head of the Angli- can church , governed by two archbishops and twenty- four suffragans , each of these ...
... church ; but all sorts of religions are either connived at or tolerated . The king of Great- Britian is acknowledged as supreme head of the Angli- can church , governed by two archbishops and twenty- four suffragans , each of these ...
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