Historical Tales: The Romance of RealityJ. B. Lippincott, 1902 - 322 páginas |
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... centuries been known . The broad Loire , the longest river of France , sweeps the foot of the sloping plain on which the city stands , and bears its commerce to the sea . Near by grows a magnificent forest , one of the largest in France ...
... centuries been known . The broad Loire , the longest river of France , sweeps the foot of the sloping plain on which the city stands , and bears its commerce to the sea . Near by grows a magnificent forest , one of the largest in France ...
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... centuries of incompetent and sluggish monarchs , of whom we can say little more than that they were born and died ; they can scarcely be said to have reigned . But from the midst of this dull interregnum of Merovingian sluggards comes ...
... centuries of incompetent and sluggish monarchs , of whom we can say little more than that they were born and died ; they can scarcely be said to have reigned . But from the midst of this dull interregnum of Merovingian sluggards comes ...
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... centuries of modern Europe have to tell us . After the era of the busy building of empire in which the sturdy old Romans were the active agents , there came an era of the overthrow of empire , during which the vast results of centuries ...
... centuries of modern Europe have to tell us . After the era of the busy building of empire in which the sturdy old Romans were the active agents , there came an era of the overthrow of empire , during which the vast results of centuries ...
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... space within which the Avars guarded the accumulated wealth of centuries of conquest and plunder . The only places of exit from these great palisadod fortifications were very narrow gates , or sally - ports CHARLEMAGNE AND THE AVARS . 51.
... space within which the Avars guarded the accumulated wealth of centuries of conquest and plunder . The only places of exit from these great palisadod fortifications were very narrow gates , or sally - ports CHARLEMAGNE AND THE AVARS . 51.
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... centuries of victory and plunder , together with the great wealth in gold and silver coin which they had wrung by way ... century paid the Avars annually as tribute eighty thousand gold solidi , and that on a single occasion the Emperor ...
... centuries of victory and plunder , together with the great wealth in gold and silver coin which they had wrung by way ... century paid the Avars annually as tribute eighty thousand gold solidi , and that on a single occasion the Emperor ...
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