Universal History Americanised; Or, An Historical View of the World, from the Earliest Records to the Year 1808: With a Particular Reference to the State of Society, Literature, Religion, and Form of Government, in the United States of America, Том 6Copy-right secured, for the benefit of the family of Doctor Ramsay, and printed by assignment from them, by M. Carey & son, 1819 |
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... sovereign ; sometimes they were not only divided and independent of one another , but very fre- quently engaged in mutual hostilities . Their intestine quar- rels always prevented them from pursuing any common in- terest ; and private ...
... sovereign ; sometimes they were not only divided and independent of one another , but very fre- quently engaged in mutual hostilities . Their intestine quar- rels always prevented them from pursuing any common in- terest ; and private ...
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... sovereign , and not against the people , whom he promised to govern with equity . The English had lost their king , and Edgar Atheling , the son of Edmund Ironside , was too young and inexperienced to protect them against a formidable ...
... sovereign , and not against the people , whom he promised to govern with equity . The English had lost their king , and Edgar Atheling , the son of Edmund Ironside , was too young and inexperienced to protect them against a formidable ...
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... houses , and pillaging the vassals , so that every province became a theatre of desolation and anarchy . The barons every where acting as sovereigns , as- sumed all the powers of royalty . They coined money ENGLAND . 71.
... houses , and pillaging the vassals , so that every province became a theatre of desolation and anarchy . The barons every where acting as sovereigns , as- sumed all the powers of royalty . They coined money ENGLAND . 71.
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... sovereigns , and against one another ; and not only armed numbers of their own vassals and dependants , but , after the example of the king and em- press , kept in pay large bodies of foreign mercenaries . Above a thousand fortified ...
... sovereigns , and against one another ; and not only armed numbers of their own vassals and dependants , but , after the example of the king and em- press , kept in pay large bodies of foreign mercenaries . Above a thousand fortified ...
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... sovereign , and could be kept longer on foot , than an army raised on the principles of the feudal system . In examining the general state of society in England in the times which we are now considering , a strange constrast of wealth ...
... sovereign , and could be kept longer on foot , than an army raised on the principles of the feudal system . In examining the general state of society in England in the times which we are now considering , a strange constrast of wealth ...
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