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共 222 段- "The earliest instance of applying Electricity to the
- _E. Trevert,
- ÉMIGRÉS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
- "The greatness of Sussex did not last beyond the days of its
- "The Danish invasions of England ... fall naturally into thr
- "Before Alfred's son Edward died, the whole of Mercia was
- The battle of Stamford-bridge was fought on Monday, Septembe
- William the Conqueror, when he died, left Normandy and Maine
- "Archbishop Theobald was at first the King's chief favourite
- "John, by the Grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland
- 62. As for all those of our subjects who will not, of their
- "The 13th century was above all things the age of the lawyer
- "At the time when the conflict between church and state was
- _J. R. Green,
- Beginning with a battle fought at St. Albans on the 23d of
- "Toward the close of the fifteenth century ... commerce and
- Henry VIII. owed his crown to the early death of his brother
- _J. Lingard,
- "The total number of those who suffered in this persecution,
- This first Parliament of Elizabeth passed two memorable acts
- "Maddened by persecution, by the hopelessness of rebellion
- On the death of Queen Elizabeth, in 1603, James VI. of
- "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. Humbly show unto our
- "His Majesty having burnt Scotch paper Declarations 'by the
- It was not until some months later, however, that the name o
- 37. The Court of Star Chamber hath abounded in extravagant
- 144. They have been able to prefer some of their own factors
- On the 19th of March he is at York; where his Hull Magazine,
- 'That we shall sincerely, really, and constantly, through th
- A futile negotiation between the king and Parliament was
- The King was surrendered to Parliament, and all now looking
- "In the death-warrant of 29th January 1649, next after the
- "The negotiations ... were still pending when Blake, meeting
- XVIII. That all and every person and persons seised or
- "Though the German war ['the Thirty Years' War,' concluded i
- In 1668, the royal treasury being greatly embarrassed by the
- II. For the Prevention whereof, and the more speedy Relief o
- Their dissolution put a stop to this; and in the next
- "Under pretence of toleration for Dissenters, James
- 3. By issuing and causing to be executed a commission under
- "The diversion in Ireland having failed, Louis wished to mak
- "Round the fall of Marlborough has gathered the interest
- "The management of public affairs during the six years of
- "The seven years that succeeded the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle
- "When George III. came to the throne, in 1760, England had
- "Hitherto the Ministry had only excited the indignation of t
- "Certain printers were in consequence ordered to attend the
- "The fall of Lord North's ministry, and with it the overthro
- _G. Tomline,
- "The union with Ireland introduced a new topic of party
- ENGLAND: A. D. 1814-1815.
- "The death of Mr. Canning placed Lord Goderich at the head o
- "The period which succeeded the passing of the Reform Bill w
- "What ... are the specific channels of Victorian utterance i
- "The more violent Chartists had broken from the Radical
- "Upon a population, containing half a million of cotton
- "The great measure of the Session [of 1871] was of course th
- (2.) In the construction of the said enactments, as amended
- (3) have acquired the property after the date by marriage,
- "The modern English forms of these words have completely los
- ERIC,
- "The utmost we can say is that several traces, apparently
- The extensive shifting of population which had produced its
- The Romans, as stated already, are believed to have been
- But they invited the quicker coming of that time by their ow
- Professor Mommsen has expressed the estimate of Cæsar which
- After nine years of struggle, two competitors emerged (A. D.
- Attila retreated to Germany, foiled but not daunted. The nex
- In Gaul, meanwhile, and in southwestern Germany, the Franks
- About the middle of the ninth century they began to seize
- Henry II. was the last of the Saxon line, and upon his death
- The first Hohenstaufen emperor was succeeded (1152) by his
- Louis IX.--Saint Louis in the calendar of the Catholic
- John left a son, a lad of nine years, who grew to be a bette
- Philip died in 1350 and was succeeded by his son John. In
- The Wat Tyler rebellion appears to have manifested a more
- In Bohemia, the excitement produced by these outrages was
- The original line of kings of Hungary having died out in 130
- Charles VIII. was a loutish and uneducated boy of eight year
- But Maximilian figures most conspicuously in history as the
- Charles was still too much involved in foreign wars to ventu
- In 1553, the young king died. Somerset had fallen from power
- Meantime Prince William and his brother, Louis of Nassau, ha
- After 1584, when the Duke of Alençon (Duke of Anjou under hi
- The great Cardinal died near the close of the year 1642; and
- The nation, speaking generally, was tired of a military
- The wars of Louis XIV. gave little opportunity for western a
- War of the Austrian Succession.
- Meantime, in her conflicts with the Turks, Catherine was
- While France was cowering under "the Terror," its armies,
- But Europe, delivered from one tyrannical master, was now
- The election of Louis Napoleon to the Presidency of the Fren
- And yet, the dread of war is greater in the civilized world
- See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
- "The federal is one of the oldest forms of government known,
- "'Britannic Confederation' is defined to be an union of 'the
- "Hardly any point in the whole history of European
- In consequence of conflicts arising between our fishermen an
- Philip was one of the most treacherous of princes, and his
- "We have designated the second period of the [Roman] Empire
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- "In the year then of our Lord 1348, there happened at
- "Cosimo de' Medici did not content himself with rendering hi
- "Terrible municipal enmities had produced so much evil as to
- "In 1502, it was decreed that the Gonfalonier should hold
- "The expedition under Menendez consisted of an army of 2,600
- "Jackson's vigorous proceedings in Florida would seem not to
- The country known anciently as Gaul, and in modern times as
- FRANCE: A. D. 996.
- "St. Louis ... by this war of 1242 finished those contests f
- Philip-le-Bel died in 1314. "With the accession of his son,
- "The disaster of Poitiers [1356] excited in the minds of the
- "The captivity of so many princes of the blood as had been
- "What is to be thought of her? What is to be thought of the
- "Except St. Louis, he [Louis XI.] was the first, as, indeed
- "The first point of difference to be noted between the
- "On the 15th of September, the day after the battle [of
- The captive king of France was lodged in the castle at
- "The son of Francis I., who in 1547 ascended the throne unde
- "The edict of January ... gave permission to Protestants to
- "With some proofs, forged or real, in her hand that he was i
- FRANCE: A. D. 1576-1585.
- "The victory [at Coutras] had only a moral effect. Henry los
- "The news of the abjuration produced in the minds of honest
- "After the death of Henry IV. it was seen how much the power
- FRANCE: A. D. 1627-1628:
- Cardinal Richelieu died on the 4th of December, 1642. "He wa
- "Faction, laid asleep for one night, woke again fresh and
- Gravelines and Dunkirk were to be at once besieged both by
- "With Colbert the spirit of the great Cardinal came back to
- "The heroism of conviction, it has been truly said, was now
- "Lewis had determined not to make any advance towards a
- "France was still reduced to extreme and abject wretchedness
- "The regency of the Duke of Orleans lasted only eight years,
- "Louis XVI., an equitable prince, moderate in his
- Banished to Troyes (August, 1787), in consequence of its
- "The opening of the States-general was fixed for the 5th of
- "The next morning the taking of the Bastille bore its intend
- "A thought, or dim raw-material of a thought, was fermenting
- "By a decree of November 27th, 1790, the Assembly required t
- "In the new National Assembly there was only one powerful an
- "Servan, the minister of war, proposed the formation of an
- "To moral intoxication is added physical intoxication, wine
- "There were, without a doubt, in this conjuncture, a great
- "While the French were ... throwing down the gauntlet to all
- "The impression made at St. Petersburg by the execution of
- "The civil war in which France for a moment appeared engulfe
- "By the end of October, 1793, the Committee of General
- "Robespierre was unutterably outraged by the proceedings of
- _J. Wilson,
- "Pichegru having taken Bois le Duc, October 9th, the Duke of
- "The Committees had formed great plans for the campaign of
- "Corsica, which had been delivered to the English by Paoli,
- "The inevitable dissension between the executive power and t
- "The Porte declared war against the French, and, entered int
- "While the French armies were thus humiliated in the field,
- "When Bonaparte, by means of the bundle of papers which Sidn
- "From May 16 to May 19, the solitudes of the vast mountain
- _M. Bourrienne,
- Chancellor Pasquier, in his Memoirs, narrates the
- "In the first days of September, 1805, Napoleon's great army
- "The object of the Orders in Council was ... twofold: to
- "Napoleon's relations with the Court of Russia, at one time
- "The battle of Leipzig was the overthrow of the French rule
- "April 20, everything being ready for Napoleon's journey, an
- "The nearest troops of the allies were the Prussian army in
- "It was a moment of unrelieved despair for the public men wh
- Thus the city which had long been the terror of Mediterranea
- The 22nd, which dissolves the Municipal Guards. The 26th,
- "In the beginning of the winter of 1851 France was still a
- "Originally ... the power of the Legislative Body was limite
- "It was not until the afternoon of August 23 that MacMahon's
- "The Government of National Defence ... imagined that the fa
- "On the 3d of March the German army of occupation--which had
- "The last day of the year 1875 saw a final prorogation of th
- "It is well known that the name of 'Frank' is not to be foun
- "At the death of King Pippin the kingdom of the Franks was
- "The fall of the Knights Templars has been connected with th
- "About this time [A. D. 1343] the king of England [Edward
- "After the conclusion of the great struggles which took plac
- "Humanly speaking, it was a mere accident which caused Calvi
- The history of Genoa for more than a century after the
- "As early as October the 12th, 1732, the 'Society for the
- "The most general name for the fiscal, administrative and
- Germanicus--the son of Drusus--was given the command on the
- 496.
- GERMANY: A. D. 911-936.
- "With the popes of Henry's appointment a new and most powerf
- Frederick Barbarossa, elected Emperor in 1152, passed into
- The choice made (A. D. 1273) by the German Electors of Rodol
- "It is important to remark that, for more than a century aft
- "The Reformation, like all other great social convulsions, w
- "Had the feudal lords granted proper and fair reforms long
- "He opened the Diet of Augsburg (September 1, 1547), in the
- "Many Protestants were alarmed by the attempts Rudolf had ma
- "Ferdinand, though firm, patient, and resigned in adversity,
- "Wallenstein had ever shown great toleration in his own
- "This battle, sometimes called Breitenwald [Breitenfeld],
- "An electoral diet was assembled at Ratisbon, by the emperor
- "The materials of which the armies were composed passed
- "Before the Thirty Years' War the territories of the German
- "Early in June [A. D. 1703], Marshal Tallard assumed the
- _F. Von Raumer,
- In the Hanoverian field of war, where Prince Ferdinand of
- Austria shared in the general intellectual awakening of
- "Germany: lost by this treaty about 24,000 square miles of i
- "The Emperor of Russia ... visited Berlin, when the feelings
- "Alexander I. now determined to negotiate in person with the
- "English people think of Stein almost exclusively in connexi
- "The Tyrol, for centuries a possession of Austria, was ceded
- 2. 'The Saxon Cavalry'--some regiments had accompanied the
- "The [allied] Army of the North had been nearly idle since t
- "Germany was now utterly disintegrated. The Holy Roman Empir
- "The French revolution of February, the flight of Louis
- "King Frederic William IV. [of Prussia], never a man of stro
- "We may make the statement that in the autumn of 1866 the
- _C. Lowe,
- "There is the strongest reason to believe that among the
- GOOD HOPE, Cape of:
- "Ermanaric, who seems to have been chosen king about the yea
- As the successor of Wallia, who died in 419, the Visigoths
- _W. H. Ward, editor,