An Easy Grammar of History; Ancient and Modern: With Questions for Exercise; by Means of which History May be Practically Taught in Schools

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Bennett & Walton, 1819 - 180 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 2 - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time* therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Pàgina 80 - Augustus, was bounded on the west by the Atlantic ocean, on the north by the Rhine and the Danube, on the east by the Euphrates, and on the south by the deserts of Arabia and Africa.
Pàgina 37 - He made himself master of Harfleur, and gained the famous battle of Agincourt, in which the French lost an incredible number of men. , In...
Pàgina 44 - He was the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, who was the fourth son of Edward III.
Pàgina 25 - At this period, the Roman boundaries extended on the west to the Atlantic ocean, on the north to the Rhine and the Danube, on the east to the Euphrates, and on the south to the sandy deserts of Arabia, and Africa.
Pàgina 4 - The author trusts that the difficulty of giving general views in so brief a manner, and of analysing a science so comprehensive and complicated as Universal History, will induce the candid and intelligent reader to pardon such defects as may have arisen from the necessary brevity.
Pàgina 170 - ANASTASIUS II. emperor of the East. Spain conquered by the Saracens under Muca. the general of the caliph Walid.
Pàgina 36 - Africa, where he died in 1^70, before Tunis. His son and successor, Philip III, kept the field against the Moors, and saved the remains of the French army ; and this procured him the surname of the Hardy.
Pàgina 40 - Napoleon, by the grace of God and the constitution, emperor of the French, king of Italy, and protector of the confederation of the Rhine...
Pàgina 16 - AC this office became decennial. In 648 the archons were annually elected, and were nine in number, with equal authority. Under all these changes the state was convulsed, and the condition of the people miserable. 2. Draco, elevated to the archonship 624...

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