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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... Civil Wars of York and Lancaster .... Reformation , James I .... Charles I .... Usurpation of Cromwell .... Charles II .... James II ... William III ... Anne ... George I ... George II .... George III . . 79 93 · 101 A short delineation ...
... Civil Wars of York and Lancaster .... Reformation , James I .... Charles I .... Usurpation of Cromwell .... Charles II .... James II ... William III ... Anne ... George I ... George II .... George III . . 79 93 · 101 A short delineation ...
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... civil constitutions are hid in impen- etrable darkness , and consequently afford no foundation even for conjecture . It is , however , probable , that the patriarchal form of government was set aside by tyranny and 26 History of all ...
... civil constitutions are hid in impen- etrable darkness , and consequently afford no foundation even for conjecture . It is , however , probable , that the patriarchal form of government was set aside by tyranny and 26 History of all ...
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... civil power out of their hands , who had hitherto enjoyed an absolute control in affairs of religion and government , and left them only the shadow of sovereignty . At length , about the year 1160 , Assareddin , general of Norradin ...
... civil power out of their hands , who had hitherto enjoyed an absolute control in affairs of religion and government , and left them only the shadow of sovereignty . At length , about the year 1160 , Assareddin , general of Norradin ...
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... civil dis- cords between the senate and the tribunes , invaded Italy , plundered Rome , and laid it in ashes . They retired to their own country , loaded with spoils . The city was speedily rebuilt , but the sad effects of this ...
... civil dis- cords between the senate and the tribunes , invaded Italy , plundered Rome , and laid it in ashes . They retired to their own country , loaded with spoils . The city was speedily rebuilt , but the sad effects of this ...
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... civil war , in which he fell an illustrious victim to a rapacious and implacable senate . - Caius Gracchus , pursuing the same step , shared the fate of his brother . The Numi- dian war , which commenced b . C. 111 , and lasted five ...
... civil war , in which he fell an illustrious victim to a rapacious and implacable senate . - Caius Gracchus , pursuing the same step , shared the fate of his brother . The Numi- dian war , which commenced b . C. 111 , and lasted five ...
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