Outlines of Universal History from the Creation of the World to the Present TimeJenks, Hickling and Swan, 1854 - 559 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
afterwards alliance ancient arms army Asia Minor assembly Athenians Athens attack attempted Austria banished battle Bavaria became Bohemia Cæsar Catholic Charles Christian Church civilization clergy coast colony command compelled conquered constitution contest council courage court crown death defeated defended destroyed died doctrines duke elected Elector emperor empire enemy England English established favor fell France Frederick French Gaul gave German German empire Ghibellines Girondists Greece Greek hands Henry heroic Huguenots Hungary imperial inhabitants island Italy king kingdom land latter laws length liberty Louis Lower Italy marched ment military Napoleon nation Netherlands nobles obliged parliament party peace Persians Philip poetry Poland Pompey pope possession priests princes prisoners provinces Prussia purpose received reign religion religious restored retreat Rhine Roman Rome Saxony Sicily soon Spain Spartans spirit successor Swabia territory Thessaly throne tion took towns tribes troops victory warlike West Goths whilst whole
Pasajes populares
Página 294 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Página 302 - It being one chief project of that old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues...
Página 474 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Página 369 - That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, and that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown...
Página 389 - Letters," he attacked with the same wanton scorn as Voltaire the faith of the Church, and the whole form and system of government in France, and in the same way, by wit and irony, turned the customs and social position of his contemporaries into ridicule. In his ingenious treatise " On the Causes of the Greatness and the Decline of the Romans," he tried to prove that patriotism and self-reliance rendered a state great, but that despotism brought it to destruction. His third work, " On the Spirit...
Página 95 - ... deprived of one of her finest frontier provinces and left open to the French invader, against whom the petty princes of Southern Germany being, consequently, unprotected, they fell, in course of time, under the influence of their powerful neighbour. At Osnabriick, peace was concluded with Sweden, which was indemnified for the expenses of the war by the payment of five million...
Página 371 - ... place and stores, and over 2,000 prisoners. The enemy then crossed the Hudson in force, and Washington was obliged to abandon Fort Lee, on the Jersey shore, with a great quantity of baggage and artillery.
Página 366 - England ; they voted to send another petition to the king, and an address to the people of Great Britain...
Página 370 - Men imagined they saw in him a sage of antiquity, come back to give austere lessons and generous examples to the moderns. They personified in him the republic, of which he was the representative and the legislator. They regarded his virtues as those of his countrymen, and even judged of their physiognomy by the imposing and serene traits of his own.
Página 294 - I thank God there are no free schools or printing, and I hope we " shall not have them these hundred years. For learning has brought " heresy, and disobedience, and sects into the world, and printing has " divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us