A History of the World with All Its Great Sensations: Together with Its Mighty and Decisive Battles and the Rise and Fall of Its Nations from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Bind 1P.F. Collier, 1887 - 1492 sider |
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Side xv
... command of colonial forces .. siege and fall of death of ....... Victoria , Queen .. Victory of Arminius over the Romans Waterloo , battle of .. Vienna besieged by the Turks . Weissenburg , battle of . the congress of .. Wellington ...
... command of colonial forces .. siege and fall of death of ....... Victoria , Queen .. Victory of Arminius over the Romans Waterloo , battle of .. Vienna besieged by the Turks . Weissenburg , battle of . the congress of .. Wellington ...
Side 3
... command of a chief who possesses uncontrolled power over life and death , or wandering nomadic tribes , guided by a leader , who , as father of the fam- ily , exercises the functions of prince , judge , and high priest . These nomadic ...
... command of a chief who possesses uncontrolled power over life and death , or wandering nomadic tribes , guided by a leader , who , as father of the fam- ily , exercises the functions of prince , judge , and high priest . These nomadic ...
Side 7
... command of Jehovah , and settled him- self with his family and cattle in " the promised land , " Cánaan ( Palestine ) , where they received from the inhabitants the name of the " Strangers from the other side . " Isaac , who was born to ...
... command of Jehovah , and settled him- self with his family and cattle in " the promised land , " Cánaan ( Palestine ) , where they received from the inhabitants the name of the " Strangers from the other side . " Isaac , who was born to ...
Side 15
... command of Pausanias , B.C. 479. On the same day the Greeks engaged and destroyed the remains of the Persian fleet at Mycale . From that hour the ambitious schemes of Xerxes were at an end ; and his inglorious life was soon after ...
... command of Pausanias , B.C. 479. On the same day the Greeks engaged and destroyed the remains of the Persian fleet at Mycale . From that hour the ambitious schemes of Xerxes were at an end ; and his inglorious life was soon after ...
Side 18
... command them confirmed their resolution to continue their resistance . Gylippus was already near the city . Crossing the straits of Messina , which the culpable negligence of Nicias had left unguarded , he landed on the northern coast ...
... command them confirmed their resolution to continue their resistance . Gylippus was already near the city . Crossing the straits of Messina , which the culpable negligence of Nicias had left unguarded , he landed on the northern coast ...
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A History of the World with All Its Great Sensations: Together with ..., Bind 1 Uddragsvisning - 1887 |
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afterwards allies American ancient arms army Athenian attack Austria battle Bavaria became Bohemia British brother Cæsar caliph called Carthaginians castle cavalry century Charlemagne Charles Charles II Christian church coast colony command conquered conquest court crown Danube daughter death declared defeated died dominions Duke Duke of Guise Edward emperor empire enemy England English Europe fell Ferdinand fleet force formed France Frederick French Gaul gave German Greek Henry Henry III horse hundred imperial Indians infantry invaded Ireland Irish island Italy John king king's kingdom land Lord Louis Louis XIV marched ment nations Navarre Netherlands nobles Norman officers parliament peace Persian Philip pope Portugal possession prince prisoner provinces Prussians queen reign Roman Rome Russia Saxon Scotland sent ships Sicily soldiers soon sovereign Spain Spaniards Spanish succeeded success surrendered throne tion took town treaty troops Turks victory whole William
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Side 118 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Side 271 - ... fortunes and their own at the end! of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries in all the courts of western Europe.
Side 291 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Side 257 - For I assure you I have often kneeled before him in his privy chamber...
Side 258 - Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed therefore that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty.
Side 260 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Side 444 - The paths of glory lead but to the grave " — must have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
Side 291 - ... midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman...
Side 507 - After various messages, a convention for the surrender of the army was settled, which provided that " The troops under General Burgoyne were to march out of their camp with the honors of war, and the artillery of the intrenchments, to the verge of the river, where the arms and artillery were to be left.
Side 439 - Kensington, in the fiftieth year of her age, and the thirteenth of her reign. Her easy temper and her faultless domestic life gained her the epithet of