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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... 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.
... 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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... REFERRED TO IN THE LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY . THE shortest Course of Historical Reading that can be proposed seems to be the following : ( 1. ) Three first chapters of Gibbon ; and the 9th for the Romans and Barbarians , & c .; the ...
... REFERRED TO IN THE LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY . THE shortest Course of Historical Reading that can be proposed seems to be the following : ( 1. ) Three first chapters of Gibbon ; and the 9th for the Romans and Barbarians , & c .; the ...
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... referred to for accounts of every state and kingdom : the best authors are mentioned in their margins . Priestley's Lectures should be looked at for the Nature of Historical Au- thorities , & c . For Chronology there is a great French ...
... referred to for accounts of every state and kingdom : the best authors are mentioned in their margins . Priestley's Lectures should be looked at for the Nature of Historical Au- thorities , & c . For Chronology there is a great French ...
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... referred to , and there is a very good account of Luther in Milner's Church History . Lingard's History . CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS WARS IN FRANCE . may be slightly read . Brantome , parts of INTRODUCTION to Thuanus or de Thou . Then the ...
... referred to , and there is a very good account of Luther in Milner's Church History . Lingard's History . CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS WARS IN FRANCE . may be slightly read . Brantome , parts of INTRODUCTION to Thuanus or de Thou . Then the ...
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... refers to Du Verney - for South Sea Bubble , see Coxe's Sir R. Wal- pole - Stuart's Political Economy - Cobbett's Parliamentary History - Aisla- bie's Second Defence before the Lords - Report of the Address , & c . KING OF PRUSSIA ...
... refers to Du Verney - for South Sea Bubble , see Coxe's Sir R. Wal- pole - Stuart's Political Economy - Cobbett's Parliamentary History - Aisla- bie's Second Defence before the Lords - Report of the Address , & c . KING OF PRUSSIA ...
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