The Revolt of the United Netherlands. With the Trial of Counts Egmont and Horn, and the Siege of Antwerp: To which is Added, The Disturbances in France Preceding the Reign of Henry IV.G. Bell & sons, 1897 - 452 pages |
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... present history , my only vocation to write it . The execution of this design carried me farther than in the beginning I had expected . A closer acquaintance with my materials enabled me to discover defects , previously unnoticed , long ...
... present history , my only vocation to write it . The execution of this design carried me farther than in the beginning I had expected . A closer acquaintance with my materials enabled me to discover defects , previously unnoticed , long ...
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... present century . Besides many original documents which I could not otherwise have had access to , it has abstracted all that is valuable in the excellent works of Bos , Hooft , Brandt , Le Clerc , which either were impossible for me to ...
... present century . Besides many original documents which I could not otherwise have had access to , it has abstracted all that is valuable in the excellent works of Bos , Hooft , Brandt , Le Clerc , which either were impossible for me to ...
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... presents in such rich abundance . Those times are gone , such men are no more . In the soft lap of refinement , we have suffered the energetic powers to become enervate which those ages called into action and rendered indispensable ...
... presents in such rich abundance . Those times are gone , such men are no more . In the soft lap of refinement , we have suffered the energetic powers to become enervate which those ages called into action and rendered indispensable ...
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... present history , its course appears so contradictory to reason and experience . Philip II . , the most powerful sovereign of his line - whose dreaded supremacy menaced the independence of Europe - whose treasures surpassed the col ...
... present history , its course appears so contradictory to reason and experience . Philip II . , the most powerful sovereign of his line - whose dreaded supremacy menaced the independence of Europe - whose treasures surpassed the col ...
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... present day of people to Holland , seeking by their entrance upon her territory to be reinvested in their rights as men , what must it have been at a time when the rest of Europe groaned under a heavy bondage , when Amsterdam was nearly ...
... present day of people to Holland , seeking by their entrance upon her territory to be reinvested in their rights as men , what must it have been at a time when the rest of Europe groaned under a heavy bondage , when Amsterdam was nearly ...
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