Elements of Universal History, on a New and Systematic Plan: From the Earlist Times to the Treaty of Vienna. To which is Added, a Summary of the Leading Events Since that Period. For the Use of Schools and of Private StudentsLea & Blanchard, 1844 - 561 páginas |
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... Vienna. To which is Added, a Summary of the Leading Events Since that Period. For the Use of Schools and of Private Students Henry White. 3 3433 08239126 3 MAR 2 2 1915 OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY , ON A. NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES Front Cover.
... Vienna. To which is Added, a Summary of the Leading Events Since that Period. For the Use of Schools and of Private Students Henry White. 3 3433 08239126 3 MAR 2 2 1915 OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY , ON A. NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES Front Cover.
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... Period. For the Use of Schools and of Private Students Henry White. PREFACE . THIS Volume contains a brief narrative ... periods of centuries . This plan appeared to him likely to simplify the study of history , by its enabling the unprac ...
... Period. For the Use of Schools and of Private Students Henry White. PREFACE . THIS Volume contains a brief narrative ... periods of centuries . This plan appeared to him likely to simplify the study of history , by its enabling the unprac ...
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... Period. For the Use of Schools and of Private Students Henry White. INTRODUCTION . UNIVERSAL HISTORY is commonly ... periods , are the Irruption of the Barbarians , the conse quent fall of the Western Empire , and the foundation of the ...
... Period. For the Use of Schools and of Private Students Henry White. INTRODUCTION . UNIVERSAL HISTORY is commonly ... periods , are the Irruption of the Barbarians , the conse quent fall of the Western Empire , and the foundation of the ...
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... period when the empire of the West was partially restored in the Franko - Germanic dominions of Charlemagne , 800-936 . 4. The fourth is the interesting period of the dark ages , 936- 1100 , during which the monarchy of Charlemagne fell ...
... period when the empire of the West was partially restored in the Franko - Germanic dominions of Charlemagne , 800-936 . 4. The fourth is the interesting period of the dark ages , 936- 1100 , during which the monarchy of Charlemagne fell ...
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... Period. For the Use of Schools and of Private Students Henry White. hostility prevailed for centuries between the Babylonians and Assyrians , who had not all left the plains of Shinar ( Mesopotamia . ) The name of Babylon does not again ...
... Period. For the Use of Schools and of Private Students Henry White. hostility prevailed for centuries between the Babylonians and Assyrians , who had not all left the plains of Shinar ( Mesopotamia . ) The name of Babylon does not again ...
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Página 19 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Página 144 - So early as the end of the second century or the beginning of the third, the...
Página 128 - It is almost superfluous to enumerate the unworthy successors of Augustus. Their unparalleled vices, and the splendid theatre on which they were acted, have saved them from oblivion. The dark unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the feeble Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius, and the timid inhuman Domitian, are condemned tp everlasting infamy.
Página 517 - This species infests a great variety of plants, and is to be found throughout our country from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Página 67 - God ; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
Página 111 - Moreover they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, saying, How is the valiant man fallen, that delivered Israel!
Página 235 - An army marching under the emperor Otho I. was so terrified by an eclipse of the sun, which it conceived to announce this consummation, as to disperse hastily on all sides. As this notion...
Página 504 - ... army be decided in a day. He understood war as a science ; but his mind was too bold, rapid, and irrepressible, to be enslaved by the technics of his profession. He found the old armies fighting by rule, and he discovered the true characteristic of genius, which, without despising rules, knows when and how to break them. He understood thoroughly the immense moral power, which is gained...
Página 393 - ... ever heard on the waters of the Mississippi. To conceal his death, his body was wrapped in a mantle, and, in the stillness of midnight, was silently sunk in the middle of the stream. The discoverer of the Mississippi slept beneath its waters. He had crossed a large part of the continent in search of gold, and found nothing so remarkable as his burial-place.