Crossley's Comprehensive class bookHamilton, Adams & Company, 1845 - 324 páginas |
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... Kings 12 ... Norman Kings Spain , the Goths & Moors 158 from Ferdinand and 18 Isabella 162 Wars and Rebellions 22 .... Lancasterian Kings . 28 Portugal 168 Wars of the Roses 32 Holland and Belgium .. 172 Tudor Princes Sweden 38 ...
... Kings 12 ... Norman Kings Spain , the Goths & Moors 158 from Ferdinand and 18 Isabella 162 Wars and Rebellions 22 .... Lancasterian Kings . 28 Portugal 168 Wars of the Roses 32 Holland and Belgium .. 172 Tudor Princes Sweden 38 ...
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... king of England . Egbert was a native of England , but had been ' edu- cated in France , at the court of 3 ... king was called Alfred the Great ; and he had a better right to the ' epithet of Great than most other kings who have borne it ...
... king of England . Egbert was a native of England , but had been ' edu- cated in France , at the court of 3 ... king was called Alfred the Great ; and he had a better right to the ' epithet of Great than most other kings who have borne it ...
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... king like Alfred to ' oppose them - they were accordingly victo- rious , and three Danish kings governed the country in 1 succession . In the year 1041 , the Danes were subdued , and another Saxon king , called Edward the Confessor ...
... king like Alfred to ' oppose them - they were accordingly victo- rious , and three Danish kings governed the country in 1 succession . In the year 1041 , the Danes were subdued , and another Saxon king , called Edward the Confessor ...
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... king in the breast ; so that he died . This took place in the year 1100 , and William Rufus was succeeded by his brother Henry . This king was called Beauclerk , or Excellent Scholar , because he was able to write . On the death of king ...
... king in the breast ; so that he died . This took place in the year 1100 , and William Rufus was succeeded by his brother Henry . This king was called Beauclerk , or Excellent Scholar , because he was able to write . On the death of king ...
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... kings had exercised . King John died in 1216 , and left the crown to his son , who was then only nine years old . He was called Henry the Third . His reign continued fifty - five years . During this reign , in the year 1258 , the earl ...
... kings had exercised . King John died in 1216 , and left the crown to his son , who was then only nine years old . He was called Henry the Third . His reign continued fifty - five years . During this reign , in the year 1258 , the earl ...
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Página 182 - Norway is an extensive country, bounded on the ,west by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the east by Sweden. It is a cold, bleak, and barren region, but the inhabitants live pretty comfortably.
Página 46 - ... posterity. 3. Thus the Egyptian style of building derived its origin from the cavern and mound; the Chinese from the tent; the Grecian from the wooden cabin; and the Gothic from the bower of trees.
Página 121 - Cascades and fountains whose waters are, in their fall, divided into drops, exhibit rain-bows to a spectator, if properly situated during the time of the sun's shining ; and water blown violently from the mouth of an observer whose back is turned towards the sun never fails to produce the same phenomenon.
Página 253 - Mahometans, and one half of them are nearly in a savage state. The rest are in a barbarous condition. 8. The central parts of Africa abound in wild animals, such as lions, panthers, leopards, elephants, rhinoceroses, zebras, and quaggas. The woods are filled with chattering monkeys, the thickets are infested with monstrous serpents, ostriches roam over the deserts, various kinds of antelopes and deer in vast herds graze upon the plains, hippopotami are seen in the lakes and rivers, and crocodiles...
Página 102 - Not long after this king and queen were crowned, the American Revolution broke out. The United States declared themselves a free and independent republic. The people of France took a great interest in the affairs of America ; and they began to think that a republic was a better kind of government than a monarchy.
Página 272 - Britain. 5. All these provinces together compose a tract of country equal in extent to the United States. They are bounded north by the Arctic Sea and Baffin's Bay, east by the Atlantic, south by the United States, and west by Russian America and the Pacific Ocean. 6. The first people who formed settlements in America, to the northward of the present limits of the United States, were the French. Nearly three hundred years ago, they were in the habit of sending fishing-vessels to this coast.
Página 226 - AD 1215, in the great charter granted by that prince; wherein he promises to summon all archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, and greater barons, personally; and all other tenants in chief under the crown, by the sheriff and bailiffs; to meet at a certain place, with forty days' notice to assess aids and scutages when necessary.
Página 165 - An eclipse of the sun is said to be annular, when at the time of the eclipse a ring of the sun appears round the edges of the moon ; and a central eclipse of the sun will be an annular one, if the distance of the moon from the earth at the time of the eclipse be greater than its mean distance.
Página 259 - These show that many ages since, between three and four thousand years ago, this country was filled with millions of people, and that there were cities here of the most wonderful magnificence. 2. Thebes appears to have been more magnificent than any other city either in ancient or modern times. It was called the city of a hundred gates; and such was the immense population, that through each of these gates, in time of war, marched two hundred armed chariots, and two thousand soldiers.
Página 154 - Those which appear largest, are called stars of the first magnitude ; the next to them in lustre, stars of the second magnitude ; and so on to the sixth, which are the smallest that are visible to the bare eye.