The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... Britain - 159 170 189 · • · 214 II . Some Account of the Ancient Inhabitants of Britain III . The Reduction of Britain by the Romans IV . The Fall of the Roman Power in Britain BOOK II . CHAP . I. The Entry and Settlement of the Saxons ...
... Britain - 159 170 189 · • · 214 II . Some Account of the Ancient Inhabitants of Britain III . The Reduction of Britain by the Romans IV . The Fall of the Roman Power in Britain BOOK II . CHAP . I. The Entry and Settlement of the Saxons ...
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... BRITAIN . IN BRITONS . - N order to obtain a clear notion of the state of Europe before the universal prevalence of the Roman power , the whole region is to be divided into two principal parts , which we shall call Northern and Southern ...
... BRITAIN . IN BRITONS . - N order to obtain a clear notion of the state of Europe before the universal prevalence of the Roman power , the whole region is to be divided into two principal parts , which we shall call Northern and Southern ...
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... Britain . From thence they received considerable succors ; by which means this island first came to be known with any exactness by the Romans , and first drew upon it the attention of that victorious people . Though Cæsar had reduced ...
... Britain . From thence they received considerable succors ; by which means this island first came to be known with any exactness by the Romans , and first drew upon it the attention of that victorious people . Though Cæsar had reduced ...
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... Britain and Germany an undertaking , at that particular time , not unworthy a wise and able general . But these enterprises , though reasonable in themselves , were only subservient to purposes of more importance , and which he had more ...
... Britain and Germany an undertaking , at that particular time , not unworthy a wise and able general . But these enterprises , though reasonable in themselves , were only subservient to purposes of more importance , and which he had more ...
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... Britain . B. C. 55 . The inhabitants of that island , who were divided into a great number of petty nations , under a very coarse and disorderly frame of government , did not find it easy to plan any effectual measures for their defence ...
... Britain . B. C. 55 . The inhabitants of that island , who were divided into a great number of petty nations , under a very coarse and disorderly frame of government , did not find it easy to plan any effectual measures for their defence ...
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