Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nation to the Close of the American Revolution, Volume 1H. G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... Improved and enlarged , by EDWARD JESSE , Esq . Illustrated with 60 Engravings . 7s . 6d . Horace's Odes and Epodes . Trans- lated by the Rev. W. SEWELL . 3s . 6d . Complete Irving's ( Washington ) Works . In 10 vols . 38. 6d . each ...
... Improved and enlarged , by EDWARD JESSE , Esq . Illustrated with 60 Engravings . 7s . 6d . Horace's Odes and Epodes . Trans- lated by the Rev. W. SEWELL . 3s . 6d . Complete Irving's ( Washington ) Works . In 10 vols . 38. 6d . each ...
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... improved his hearers more by a less elaborate mode of address . Instead then , of endeavouring to draw up any general history of Europe since the overthrow of the Roman empire in the west , and instead of attempting any discussion of ...
... improved his hearers more by a less elaborate mode of address . Instead then , of endeavouring to draw up any general history of Europe since the overthrow of the Roman empire in the west , and instead of attempting any discussion of ...
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... improvement . Whatever value we may justly affix to the account of Cæsar , the Treatise of Tacitus is still more distinct , complete , and important . There is no work of profane literature that has been so studied and discussed . The ...
... improvement . Whatever value we may justly affix to the account of Cæsar , the Treatise of Tacitus is still more distinct , complete , and important . There is no work of profane literature that has been so studied and discussed . The ...
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... improvement ? Or , lastly , and on the other hand , may not this extended and dreadful convulsion of Europe be ... improved by the renewal which it will receive from the influx of these free - born warriors : mankind , fresh from the ...
... improvement ? Or , lastly , and on the other hand , may not this extended and dreadful convulsion of Europe be ... improved by the renewal which it will receive from the influx of these free - born warriors : mankind , fresh from the ...
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... improved country , like this of England . No good can be purchased without some labour ; and though the opening of modern history may be repulsive , the portions of it that follow , will be found sufficiently attractive . You will now ...
... improved country , like this of England . No good can be purchased without some labour ; and though the opening of modern history may be repulsive , the portions of it that follow , will be found sufficiently attractive . You will now ...
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