The History of Gustavus Vasa: King of Sweden

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J. Murray, 1852 - 312 Seiten

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Seite 7 - Handbook of Architecture. Being a Concise and Popular Account of the Different Styles prevailing in all Ages and Countries in the World. With a Description of the most remarkable Buildings.
Seite 6 - PENROSE'S (REV. JOHN) Faith and Practice; an Exposition of the Principles and Duties of Natural and Revealed Religion. Post Svo. 8s. 6d. - (FC) Principles of Athenian Architecture, and the Optical Refinements exhibited in the Construction of the Ancient Buildings at Athens, from a Survey. With 40 Plates. Folio.
Seite vi - Nam quis nescit, primam esse historiae legem, ne quid falsi dicere audeat ? deinde ne quid veri non audeat?
Seite 136 - ... have been much better disposed of; that is to say, that the greatest part of it might have been applied to the public benefit, considering the burdens now lying on the country, through the heavy debt occasioned by the war, which has been now a long time waged against King Christian. We therefore enjoin the Bishop and Chapter of Abo to modify the said will according to our ideas, which we have already partly explained to his executors, so that while his heirs, relations and the poor get the share...
Seite 12 - collecting literary sticks, picked up exactly in the order and state in which he chanced to find them. They are thin, short, dry, sapless, crooked, headless, and pointless. In the depth of winter, however, a faggot of real French sticks — although of little intrinsic value — may possibly enliven for a few moments an English fireside.
Seite 8 - Showing, at the same time, the way of seeing them to the best advantage, with the least expenditure of time and money.
Seite 5 - It contains the dates of the events which mark the rise, progress, decline, and fall of states ; and the changes in the fortunes of nations. Alliances, wars, battles, sieges, and treaties of peace; geographical discoveries, the settlement of colonies, and their subsequent story ; — with all occurrences of general historic interest — are recorded in it. It further includes the...
Seite 210 - Suck, little wretch, while yet thy mother lives, Suck the last drop her fainting bosom gives: She dies ; her tenderness survives her breath, And her fond love is provident in death.
Seite 16 - Nineveh, and whilst still assigning the later monuments to the kings mentioned in Scripture, Shalmanezer, Sennacherib, and Essarhadon, I am convinced that a considerable period elapsed between their foundation and the erection of the older palaces of Nimroud.
Seite 1 - Period between the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars. Peloponnesian War down to the Expedition of the Athenians against Syracuse. VOLS.

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