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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... king's journey to Scotland in 1641 . Fourth interval , from that journey to the civil war . Prynne's Speech in Cobbett - Walker's History of Independents to be looked at , and the King's Letters in Royston's Edition of his works - Mrs ...
... king's journey to Scotland in 1641 . Fourth interval , from that journey to the civil war . Prynne's Speech in Cobbett - Walker's History of Independents to be looked at , and the King's Letters in Royston's Edition of his works - Mrs ...
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... KING OF PRUSSIA . THIEBAULT - Edinburgh Review of that Work - Tower's Life of the King of Prussia . These will be sufficient for the general reader . Mirabeau on the Prussian Monarchy ; particularly the first vol . and last ; read and ...
... KING OF PRUSSIA . THIEBAULT - Edinburgh Review of that Work - Tower's Life of the King of Prussia . These will be sufficient for the general reader . Mirabeau on the Prussian Monarchy ; particularly the first vol . and last ; read and ...
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... king or leader : but a fief is more than all this — it is lands held on a condition of military or other service , on a condition of vassalage to some superior lord . The Abbé de Mably makes it sufficiently probable that bene- ficia of ...
... king or leader : but a fief is more than all this — it is lands held on a condition of military or other service , on a condition of vassalage to some superior lord . The Abbé de Mably makes it sufficiently probable that bene- ficia of ...
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... king , as the greatest of those lords . In England the situation of things was not exactly the same as in the rest of Europe , from the greater influence of the crown ; but in general it may be said , that whatever shook and scattered ...
... king , as the greatest of those lords . In England the situation of things was not exactly the same as in the rest of Europe , from the greater influence of the crown ; but in general it may be said , that whatever shook and scattered ...
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... king . Again . A message of expostulation or command was sent from Hugh Capet to the Count de Périgord , which ended with asking him , who made him a count ? The reply was , " Those who made you a king . " A striking specimen of the ...
... king . Again . A message of expostulation or command was sent from Hugh Capet to the Count de Périgord , which ended with asking him , who made him a count ? The reply was , " Those who made you a king . " A striking specimen of the ...
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