Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801, Band 22Samuel Stansbury and Company, 1803 |
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... ment , and religion , if deserving that appellation . Siberia was not subjected to the Russians by gentle means . Peter the Great caused in one day seven hundred of the inhabitants of a small town , called Tara , to be impaled alive ...
... ment , and religion , if deserving that appellation . Siberia was not subjected to the Russians by gentle means . Peter the Great caused in one day seven hundred of the inhabitants of a small town , called Tara , to be impaled alive ...
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... ment . This proposal was readily accepted , and three princes of known abilities and valour , whose names were Ruric , Sineus , and Truwor , who are said to have been brothers , were deput ed to the office . They reigned very amicably ...
... ment . This proposal was readily accepted , and three princes of known abilities and valour , whose names were Ruric , Sineus , and Truwor , who are said to have been brothers , were deput ed to the office . They reigned very amicably ...
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... ment of the sultan Bajazet , who had been de- feated by the famous Timur Beck , or Tamer- lane * . For this purpose , Selim concluded an alliance with some princes , who were to send him succours by the way of the Caspian sea , and ...
... ment of the sultan Bajazet , who had been de- feated by the famous Timur Beck , or Tamer- lane * . For this purpose , Selim concluded an alliance with some princes , who were to send him succours by the way of the Caspian sea , and ...
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... ment . He composed a body of law , collected from many precedents and customs , and called it the " Book of Justice . " This work , which he delivered to his judges , was ever afterwards observed , and made the standard in all legal pro ...
... ment . He composed a body of law , collected from many precedents and customs , and called it the " Book of Justice . " This work , which he delivered to his judges , was ever afterwards observed , and made the standard in all legal pro ...
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... ment , imputed to him the series of misfortunes by which they had been afflicted during his reign ; and as those calamities , among which are principally to be reckoned the horrors of war , arose chiefly from the Poles , the Russians ...
... ment , imputed to him the series of misfortunes by which they had been afflicted during his reign ; and as those calamities , among which are principally to be reckoned the horrors of war , arose chiefly from the Poles , the Russians ...
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