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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... LECTURES CAMBRILGE , MASS . ON MODERN HISTORY ; FROM THE IRRUPTION OF THE NORTHERN NATION TO THE CLOSE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION . BY WILLIAM SMYTH , PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE NEW EDITION . IN TWO ...
... LECTURES CAMBRILGE , MASS . ON MODERN HISTORY ; FROM THE IRRUPTION OF THE NORTHERN NATION TO THE CLOSE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION . BY WILLIAM SMYTH , PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE NEW EDITION . IN TWO ...
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... Lectures were drawn up to be delivered to a youthful audience , at an English University , voluntarily assembled . The Reader is requested never to lose sight of this parti- cular circumstance they were to be listened to , not read ...
... Lectures were drawn up to be delivered to a youthful audience , at an English University , voluntarily assembled . The Reader is requested never to lose sight of this parti- cular circumstance they were to be listened to , not read ...
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... 353 XIV . Henry VIII . Elizabeth . James I. Charles I. 376 XV . Charles I. 407 · • XVI . Civil War 429 • XVII . Cromwell . Monk . Regicides 452 • XVIII . Charles II . • 477 LIST OF BOOKS RECOMMENDED AND REFERRED TO IN THE LECTURES.
... 353 XIV . Henry VIII . Elizabeth . James I. Charles I. 376 XV . Charles I. 407 · • XVI . Civil War 429 • XVII . Cromwell . Monk . Regicides 452 • XVIII . Charles II . • 477 LIST OF BOOKS RECOMMENDED AND REFERRED TO IN THE LECTURES.
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... SMOLLETT'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND , with a Memoir of Hume , complete in 1 large vol . Imp . 8vo . Fine Portraits of the authors . Extra cloth , 1. ls . LECTURES ON HISTORY . ว INTRODUCTORY LECTURE . 1809 . xviii WORKS RECOMMENDED .
... SMOLLETT'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND , with a Memoir of Hume , complete in 1 large vol . Imp . 8vo . Fine Portraits of the authors . Extra cloth , 1. ls . LECTURES ON HISTORY . ว INTRODUCTORY LECTURE . 1809 . xviii WORKS RECOMMENDED .
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... LECTURES ON HISTORY . ว INTRODUCTORY LECTURE . 1809 . I MUST avail myself of the privilege of a prefatory address to enter into some explanations with respect to the lectures I am going to deliver , which could not well find a place in ...
... LECTURES ON HISTORY . ว INTRODUCTORY LECTURE . 1809 . I MUST avail myself of the privilege of a prefatory address to enter into some explanations with respect to the lectures I am going to deliver , which could not well find a place in ...
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