Outlines of General History

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American Book Company, 1915 - 578 halaman

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Halaman 275 - Furthermore — and here comes in another law of dramatic construction — a play must be, in one way or another, "satisfactory" to the audience. This word has a meaning which varies in different countries, and even in different parts of the same country; but whatever audience you are writing for, your work must be "satisfactory
Halaman 517 - Mole, satisfying the middle class but not the workers, who continued the struggle, and by the morning of Feb. 24 had become masters of Paris. Feb. 24. LOUIS PHILIPPE ABDICATED in favor of his grandson, the Count of Paris, but the latter was ignored by a rump meeting of the Chamber of Deputies into which the Paris mob had filtered; the latter chose a provisional government, dominated by moderate republicans, which fused in turn at the Hôtel de Ville that evening with a more radical slate.
Halaman 537 - Indies." I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
Halaman 358 - Henry had been one of the stauchest supporters of the Roman Catholic Church. In the eighth year of his reign he had written a book against Luther, and for his zeal on behalf of the Church had received from the pope the title of Defender of the Faith.
Halaman 245 - There Oswy, on hearing that Christ had given the keys of heaven to Peter, and that the popes were Peter's successors, declared himself on the side of the Roman Catholic Church, lest when he came "to the gates of heaven, there should be none to open them." Unity in religious belief and in church government led to unity in political affairs. Attacks of the Northmen. — Another thing which tended to bring about the same result was the consciousness of common interests in the presence of a common enemy....
Halaman 151 - Carthaginian city wall were excavated, they were found to be covered with a layer of ashes from four to five feet deep, filled with half-charred pieces of wood, fragments of iron, and projectiles. Where...
Halaman 25 - Greek letters, — and this for the convenience of the mixed population of Egypt under its Greek rulers. It was natural to conclude that the three texts were the same in substance, and accordingly earnest efforts were made to decipher the hieroglyphics by aid of the Greek. The first clew was obtained by noticing that certain groups of the hieroglyphic characters were inclosed in oval rings, and that these groups corresponded in relative position with certain proper names, such as Ptolemy, etc., in...
Halaman 503 - Alexander I. of Russia, Francis I. of Austria, and Frederick William III. of Prussia.
Halaman 275 - scutage" or "aid" should be imposed without the consent of the great council of the kingdom, except in the three feudal cases of the king's ransom, the knighting of his eldest son, and the marriage of his eldest daughter...
Halaman 158 - I am Sylla the Fortunate, who, in the course of my life, have surpassed both friends and enemies ; the former by the good, the latter by the evil I have done them." — In the civil wars carried on between Sylla and Marius, 150,000 Roman citizens were sacrificed, including 200 senators, and 33 men who had been consuls. 12. After the death of Sylla, the old dissensions again broke out between the two parties, supported respectively...

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