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, Volume 2G. Kearsley, 1795 - World history |
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... reign commenced with an attempt fimilar to that which had been the principal cause of all the disturbances in the preceding reign , and which had excluded the monarch from the throne . Born and educated in a country where all religions ...
... reign commenced with an attempt fimilar to that which had been the principal cause of all the disturbances in the preceding reign , and which had excluded the monarch from the throne . Born and educated in a country where all religions ...
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... reign was fpent in an almoft uninterrupted courfe of hoftilities with that power , which were fupported by England , at an expence fhe had never known before . A land tax was impofed , and every fubject's land taxed , according to their ...
... reign was fpent in an almoft uninterrupted courfe of hoftilities with that power , which were fupported by England , at an expence fhe had never known before . A land tax was impofed , and every fubject's land taxed , according to their ...
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... reign was his paffing the bill for fettling the fuc- ceffion to the crown in the house of Hanover . His death was haftened by a fall he had from his horse , focn after he had renewed the grand alliance against France , in the fifty ...
... reign was his paffing the bill for fettling the fuc- ceffion to the crown in the house of Hanover . His death was haftened by a fall he had from his horse , focn after he had renewed the grand alliance against France , in the fifty ...
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... reign was his paffing the bill for fettling the fuc- ceffion to the crown in the house of Hanover . His death was haftened by a fall he had from his horse , focn after he had renewed the grand alliance against France , in the fifty ...
... reign was his paffing the bill for fettling the fuc- ceffion to the crown in the house of Hanover . His death was haftened by a fall he had from his horse , focn after he had renewed the grand alliance against France , in the fifty ...
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... reign + . This princefs , notwithstand- ing the illuftrious events of her reign , is entitled to little praife : the poffeffed neither vigour of mind , fplendid talents , nor a deep penetration into human affairs . A prey to the moft ...
... reign + . This princefs , notwithstand- ing the illuftrious events of her reign , is entitled to little praife : the poffeffed neither vigour of mind , fplendid talents , nor a deep penetration into human affairs . A prey to the moft ...
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