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... Charles the Simple to the year 1274 , Champagne was governed by counts and dukes , who , at first appointed by the king , had contrived to render their power hereditary . On the death of Henry III . , count of Champagne and king of ...
... Charles the Simple to the year 1274 , Champagne was governed by counts and dukes , who , at first appointed by the king , had contrived to render their power hereditary . On the death of Henry III . , count of Champagne and king of ...
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... Charles X. to examine the collections of Egyptian antiquities in Italy , and on his return was made director of the Egyptian Museum at the Louvre , of which he published a description . In 1828 he was appointed to conduct a scientific ...
... Charles X. to examine the collections of Egyptian antiquities in Italy , and on his return was made director of the Egyptian Museum at the Louvre , of which he published a description . In 1828 he was appointed to conduct a scientific ...
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... Charles I.'s time are simply invaluable to those who wish to know the feelings of the country folk , such as , for example , their detestation of Laud and his earch reforms . Their range of subjects was absolutely unlimited , from ...
... Charles I.'s time are simply invaluable to those who wish to know the feelings of the country folk , such as , for example , their detestation of Laud and his earch reforms . Their range of subjects was absolutely unlimited , from ...
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... Parliament from 1300 to 1329 . It was the scene of a defeat of the troops of Charles I. , The wine - growers apply themselves to the distillation Presbyterian clergy rejected . Dunkirk was sold to the ! CHARADE . CHARENTE . 11.
... Parliament from 1300 to 1329 . It was the scene of a defeat of the troops of Charles I. , The wine - growers apply themselves to the distillation Presbyterian clergy rejected . Dunkirk was sold to the ! CHARADE . CHARENTE . 11.
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... CHARLES . The articles on the sovereigns of this name are arranged in the following order : -England , France , Germany , Burgundy , Sweden , and Sardinia . CHARLES I. OF ENGLAND , third son of James I. and Anne of Denmark , was born at ...
... CHARLES . The articles on the sovereigns of this name are arranged in the following order : -England , France , Germany , Burgundy , Sweden , and Sardinia . CHARLES I. OF ENGLAND , third son of James I. and Anne of Denmark , was born at ...
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Page 285 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 67 - ... religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity ; nor, even now, would it be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavour so to live that Christ would approve our life.
Page 67 - ... a man charged with a special, express, and unique commission from God to lead mankind to truth and virtue, we may well conclude that the influences of religion on the character which will remain after rational criticism has done its utmost against the evidences of religion are well worth preserving, and that what they lack in direct strength as compared with those of a firmer belief, is more than compensated by the greater truth and rectitude of the morality they sanction.
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Page 129 - Netherlands, and about the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century was brought thence to England by protestant refugees. Lewis Roberts, in ' The Treasure of Traffic,' published in 1641, makes the earliest mention extant of the manufacture in England.
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Page 218 - Catechism are contained: which order is very convenient to be observed; to the end, that children, being now come to the years of discretion, and having learned what their Godfathers and Godmothers promised for them in Baptism, they may themselves, with their own mouth and consent, openly before the Church, ratify and confirm the same ; and also promise, that by the grace of God they will evermore endeavour themselves faithfully to observe such things, as they, by their own confession, have assented...
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