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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... Peace of Westphalia , 71 England .... From its earliest period .... Heptarchy ..... Norman Conquest ..... Plantagenets .... Conquest of Ireland ..... Civil Wars of York and Lancaster .... Reformation , James I .... Charles I ...
... Peace of Westphalia , 71 England .... From its earliest period .... Heptarchy ..... Norman Conquest ..... Plantagenets .... Conquest of Ireland ..... Civil Wars of York and Lancaster .... Reformation , James I .... Charles I ...
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... peace and virtue . It is here proper to remark , that , notwithstanding the general corruption , one man was found perfect in his generation , and walking humbly with his God . This person was Noah the son of Lamech , who exerted him ...
... peace and virtue . It is here proper to remark , that , notwithstanding the general corruption , one man was found perfect in his generation , and walking humbly with his God . This person was Noah the son of Lamech , who exerted him ...
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... peace , and fortunes of a family in greater security than while they continued in the hands of a tender and affectionate pa- rent . Considering Noah as the common father of the new world during his life , we may suppose that his ...
... peace , and fortunes of a family in greater security than while they continued in the hands of a tender and affectionate pa- rent . Considering Noah as the common father of the new world during his life , we may suppose that his ...
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... peace and prosperity of the community . The recollection of the patriarchal government , and the happy effects which re- sulted from it , were sufficiently impressed on the minds of the people , to induce them to elect a single ruler ...
... peace and prosperity of the community . The recollection of the patriarchal government , and the happy effects which re- sulted from it , were sufficiently impressed on the minds of the people , to induce them to elect a single ruler ...
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... peace , and returned to her own country , where she shortly after expired . Semiramis was succeeded by her son Ninyas , a pu- sillanimous , lascivious monarch , who shut himself up in his palace , that his subjects might regard him as a ...
... peace , and returned to her own country , where she shortly after expired . Semiramis was succeeded by her son Ninyas , a pu- sillanimous , lascivious monarch , who shut himself up in his palace , that his subjects might regard him as a ...
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