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共 20 段- It was then that Alfred (already the king's most capable gen
- In regard to the financial resources of Alfred we know but l
- The kingdom was far from being prosperous when Elizabeth ass
- Elizabeth hated and detested war as the source of all calami
- Fronde's History of England; Hume's History of England; Agne
- But this atrocity had such a demoniacal blackness and perfid
- The beginning of the contest, however, was the result of rel
- I need not detail the various campaigns of the Swedish hero,
- The assassination of Henry IV. was a great calamity. The gov
- What a contrast to this servile speech was the conduct of th
- Then was fought the battle of Naseby, June 14, 1645, in whic
- His intellectual defect was his idea of special divine illum
- So, with all these powerful supports Louis began his long re
- While Colbert lived, I do not read of any extraordinary blun
- Louis XIV. spent in wars fifteen hundred millions of livres,
- We are impressed with the blind and suicidal measures which
- It was from this young man, whose name was Lefort, whom Pete
- But another enemy still remained, Turkey; who sought to reco
- With such views he enters upon a memorable career. His first
- As for Prussia,--the principal transgressor and actor,--it i