A View of Universal History, from the Creation to the Present Time: Including an Account of the Celebrated Revolutions in France, Poland, Sweden, Geneva &c. &c. Together with an Accurate and Impartial Narrative of the Late Military Operations; and Other Important Events, Том 1G. Kearsley, 1795 |
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... several centuries , without any alleviation by a diversity of seasons , became dry and full of chinks , fo that the fun's rays , pene- trating to the internal abyfs , rarefied the waters , which , by their dilation , at length broke the ...
... several centuries , without any alleviation by a diversity of seasons , became dry and full of chinks , fo that the fun's rays , pene- trating to the internal abyfs , rarefied the waters , which , by their dilation , at length broke the ...
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... . " This war between thefe two most powerful states of Greece , greatly influenced the public affairs of the several provinces ; provinces ; the clashing of their different interefts diverted their Of the internal Divifions of Greece . 93.
... . " This war between thefe two most powerful states of Greece , greatly influenced the public affairs of the several provinces ; provinces ; the clashing of their different interefts diverted their Of the internal Divifions of Greece . 93.
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... several thousand slaves , he was worsted by the prætor Marcellus in a fally out of Nola . He was alfo repulfed at Cafilinum , after he had brought the place to great extremities ; and , not long after , Marcellus gained a confiderable ...
... several thousand slaves , he was worsted by the prætor Marcellus in a fally out of Nola . He was alfo repulfed at Cafilinum , after he had brought the place to great extremities ; and , not long after , Marcellus gained a confiderable ...
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... Several engage- ments were fought before the walls with difadvantage to the aflailants , fo that the fiege would have been difcontinued had not Scipio Emilianus , the adopted fon of Africanus , who was appointed to command it , ufed as ...
... Several engage- ments were fought before the walls with difadvantage to the aflailants , fo that the fiege would have been difcontinued had not Scipio Emilianus , the adopted fon of Africanus , who was appointed to command it , ufed as ...
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... Father of his country . Several very wholesome edicts were paffed by his command , tending * Univerfal History . to to fupprefs corruption in the fenate , and licentioufnefs in Reafons why Julius Cæfar failed in a Revolution . 217.
... Father of his country . Several very wholesome edicts were paffed by his command , tending * Univerfal History . to to fupprefs corruption in the fenate , and licentioufnefs in Reafons why Julius Cæfar failed in a Revolution . 217.
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