Epitome of Ancient, Mediæval and Modern History |
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Popular passages
Page 429 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 429 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, and that the union be thirteen white stars in a blue field.
Page 348 - Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...
Page 535 - ENACTED, that, On every Such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue...
Page 506 - ... accomplished the June 28-29. Passage to the island of Alsen, defeated the Danes at all points, and took a large number of prisoners. All Jutland occupied by the allies. At sea a Prussian squadron under Jachmarn had fought successfully at...
Page 427 - Britain, and that it was necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the crown should be totally suppressed, and all the powers of government exerted under the authority of the people of the colonies.
Page 385 - That king James II. having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and having, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself out of the kingdom ; has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 385 - It was moved that King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, had abdicated the government, and that the throne had thereby become vacant.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Epitome of Ancient, Mediæval and Modern History |
| Author | Carl Ploetz |
| Translated by | William Hopkins Tillinghast |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1888 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 19 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 618 pages |
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