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Side 103
... Africa , and Asia ? Who can realise a Thirty Years War lasting five hundred years ? a devastation of the Palatinate extending through fifteen generations ? If we try to insert into the picture , as we undoubtedly should do , the ...
... Africa , and Asia ? Who can realise a Thirty Years War lasting five hundred years ? a devastation of the Palatinate extending through fifteen generations ? If we try to insert into the picture , as we undoubtedly should do , the ...
Side 148
... Africa may be quoted as an example . " In the seventh year of the reign of Justinian , and about the time of the summer solstice , the whole fleet of six hundred ships was ranged in martial pomp before the gardens of the palace . The ...
... Africa may be quoted as an example . " In the seventh year of the reign of Justinian , and about the time of the summer solstice , the whole fleet of six hundred ships was ranged in martial pomp before the gardens of the palace . The ...
Side 152
... Africa were announced to the city on the eve of St. Cyprian , when the churches were already adorned and illuminated for the festival of the martyr whom three centuries of superstition had almost raised to a local deity ... One awful ...
... Africa were announced to the city on the eve of St. Cyprian , when the churches were already adorned and illuminated for the festival of the martyr whom three centuries of superstition had almost raised to a local deity ... One awful ...
Side 153
... Africa changed her master and her government , the shops continued open and busy ; and the soldiers , after sufficient guards had been posted , modestly departed to the houses which had been allotted for their reception . Belisarius ...
... Africa changed her master and her government , the shops continued open and busy ; and the soldiers , after sufficient guards had been posted , modestly departed to the houses which had been allotted for their reception . Belisarius ...
Side 154
... Africa and Italy , before Gibbon gives us further proofs of his many - sided culture and catholicity of mind . His famous chapter on the Roman law has been accepted by the most fastidious experts of an esoteric science as a masterpiece ...
... Africa and Italy , before Gibbon gives us further proofs of his many - sided culture and catholicity of mind . His famous chapter on the Roman law has been accepted by the most fastidious experts of an esoteric science as a masterpiece ...
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Side 12 - The Desert of the Exodus. Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings, undertaken in connection with the Ordnance Survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration Fund. By EH PALMER, MA, Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic and Fellow of St.
Side 139 - I beg leave to subscribe my assent to Mr. Burke's creed on the revolution of France. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for church establishments.
Side 4 - MOHAMMED AND MOHAMMEDANISM: Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February and March, 1874. By R.
Side 10 - HOMES WITHOUT HANDS; a Description of the Habitations of Animals, classed according to their Principle of Construction.
Side 12 - Without a single lecture, either public or private, either Christian or protestant, without any academical subscription, without any episcopal confirmation, I was left by the dim light of my catechism to grope my way to the chapel and communiontable, where I was admitted, without a question, how far, or by what means, I might be qualified to receive the sacrament.
Side 136 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Side 1 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of "The Thirty Years
Side 27 - The habits of pleasure fortified my taste for the French theatre, and that taste has perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakespeare, which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman.
Side 21 - The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream; and after a full conviction, on Christmas Day 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.
Side 104 - He remains the one historian of the eighteenth century whom modern research has neither set aside nor threatened to set aside.