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... victory over the French at DETTINGEN , 1743 ; but in 1745 sustained a severe defeat by them at FONTENOY . Frederic , jealous of his French allies , soon after made peace . In 1748 , the Treaty of Aix - la - Chapelle restored general ...
... victory over the French at DETTINGEN , 1743 ; but in 1745 sustained a severe defeat by them at FONTENOY . Frederic , jealous of his French allies , soon after made peace . In 1748 , the Treaty of Aix - la - Chapelle restored general ...
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... severity after his * His elder son was Frederic , Prince of Wales , who died in 1752 , leaving a young son , George , heir to the crown . victory , shooting his prisoners , and devastating the country THE HOUSE OF HANOVER . 41.
... severity after his * His elder son was Frederic , Prince of Wales , who died in 1752 , leaving a young son , George , heir to the crown . victory , shooting his prisoners , and devastating the country THE HOUSE OF HANOVER . 41.
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... victory was gained over the French in 1759. Loss and disaster now came heavily upon France . Her colonies in America and India were torn from her grasp , and her fleets The war is hence known as the " SEVEN YEARS ' WAR . " were ...
... victory was gained over the French in 1759. Loss and disaster now came heavily upon France . Her colonies in America and India were torn from her grasp , and her fleets The war is hence known as the " SEVEN YEARS ' WAR . " were ...
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... victory , 1759 ; and French Canada passed under British rule . In India designs had been formed of raising a French empire , but the youthful com- mander CLIVE ( who had gone out at first as a writer in the East India Company's service ) ...
... victory , 1759 ; and French Canada passed under British rule . In India designs had been formed of raising a French empire , but the youthful com- mander CLIVE ( who had gone out at first as a writer in the East India Company's service ) ...
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... victory was gained by Clive in India , and what were its results ? Vertical , Absorbing , Temperature , Diminish , Marine , CLIMATE . DERIVATION . Lat . , vertex , the highest point in the heavens , and round which they turn ; from ...
... victory was gained by Clive in India , and what were its results ? Vertical , Absorbing , Temperature , Diminish , Marine , CLIMATE . DERIVATION . Lat . , vertex , the highest point in the heavens , and round which they turn ; from ...
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Africa America animals Arctic army Asia Atlantic Australia battle BATTLE OF FONTENOY belong birds Britain British burning called carnivora caused chiefly China civilisation climate cloth coal colonies colour continent cultivated defeated DERIVATION desert died Dr Livingstone earth England English Europe father feet fire flames France French George George III giraffe globe Gulf Stream Gutenberg HANOVER Harry heat hemisphere HOUSE OF HANOVER hundred hundredweights India inhabitants insects Ireland islands kind king labour land lion Lord Lord John Russell MEANING ment metal miles mountain Napoleon native night North o'er ocean ostrich Parliament peace plants Playhour pounds printed quadrupeds regions river round Russia Scotland shillings skin soon South South America species steam-engine stream SUMMARY.-The temperate tion torrid zone trees tribes troops tropical vegetable victory walrus wave winds wood yards
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Page 271 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 201 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 110 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 201 - Though graced with polished manners and fine sense (Yet wanting sensibility), the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Page 271 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 124 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours ; nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright.
Page 64 - A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee.
Page 111 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 124 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Page 55 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.