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... British Islands , in com- mon with the whole of northern and western Europe , were occupied by barbarous tribes , who bore nearly the same relation to the civilized nations of Greece and Italy , which the North American Indians of the ...
... British Islands , in com- mon with the whole of northern and western Europe , were occupied by barbarous tribes , who bore nearly the same relation to the civilized nations of Greece and Italy , which the North American Indians of the ...
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... British had no resource but to call in another set of protectors , the Saxons , a warlike people who lived in the north of Germany , and the Jutes and Angles , who inhabited Denmark . The remedy was found hardly any better than the ...
... British had no resource but to call in another set of protectors , the Saxons , a warlike people who lived in the north of Germany , and the Jutes and Angles , who inhabited Denmark . The remedy was found hardly any better than the ...
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... British lan- guage was extinguished , and even the name of the country itself was changed , from what it originally was to Angle - land or England , a term ta- ken from the Angles . The conquest required about two hundred and fifty ...
... British lan- guage was extinguished , and even the name of the country itself was changed , from what it originally was to Angle - land or England , a term ta- ken from the Angles . The conquest required about two hundred and fifty ...
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... British and Span- ish ministers led to its being broken off , and to a bloody war between the two nations . Elizabeth , the only remaining child of the king , was married in 1613 , to Frederick , Prince Palatine of the Rhine , who was ...
... British and Span- ish ministers led to its being broken off , and to a bloody war between the two nations . Elizabeth , the only remaining child of the king , was married in 1613 , to Frederick , Prince Palatine of the Rhine , who was ...
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... British history . Very great praise is also due to Napier of Merchiston , in Scotland , for the invention of logarithms , a mode of calculating intricate numbers , essential to the progress of mathematical science . CHARLES I - HIS ...
... British history . Very great praise is also due to Napier of Merchiston , in Scotland , for the invention of logarithms , a mode of calculating intricate numbers , essential to the progress of mathematical science . CHARLES I - HIS ...
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