The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V.W. and W. Strahan, 1769 - Europe |
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... gave birth to many new diforders . A constitution , unfound , and worn out , must have fallen in pieces of itself , without any external fhock . The violent irruption of the Goths , Vandals , Huns , and other barbarians haftened this ...
... gave birth to many new diforders . A constitution , unfound , and worn out , must have fallen in pieces of itself , without any external fhock . The violent irruption of the Goths , Vandals , Huns , and other barbarians haftened this ...
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... gave of the unknown conveniencies and luxuries that abounded in countries better cultivated , or bleffed with a milder climate than their own , excited new adventurers , and expofed the frontier to new devaftations . [ C ] NOTE III The ...
... gave of the unknown conveniencies and luxuries that abounded in countries better cultivated , or bleffed with a milder climate than their own , excited new adventurers , and expofed the frontier to new devaftations . [ C ] NOTE III The ...
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... gave rife , gradually introduced gradually a fpecies of government formerly unknown . This fingular in- stitution is now diftinguished by the name of the Feudal system and though the barbarous nations which framed it , fettled in their ...
... gave rife , gradually introduced gradually a fpecies of government formerly unknown . This fingular in- stitution is now diftinguished by the name of the Feudal system and though the barbarous nations which framed it , fettled in their ...
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... gave rife to as many wars . Every country in Europe , wafted or kept in continual alarm during these endless contefts , was filled with caftles and places of ftrength , erected for the security of the inhabitants , not against foreign ...
... gave rife to as many wars . Every country in Europe , wafted or kept in continual alarm during these endless contefts , was filled with caftles and places of ftrength , erected for the security of the inhabitants , not against foreign ...
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... gave their fubjects a short glimpse of light and knowledge . But the ignorance of the age was too powerful for their efforts and inftitutions . The dark- ness returned , and fettled over Europe more thick and heavy than formerly . Upon ...
... gave their fubjects a short glimpse of light and knowledge . But the ignorance of the age was too powerful for their efforts and inftitutions . The dark- ness returned , and fettled over Europe more thick and heavy than formerly . Upon ...
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