Word: conquerors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first volume of a new series, "Twelve English Statesmen," published by Macmillan and Co., has just appeared. The illustrious twelve are: William the Conqueror, Henry II., Edward I., Henry VII., Wolsey, Elizabeth, Oliver Cromwell, William III., Walpole, Chatham, Pitt, and Peel. Among the contributors to the series are: E. A. Freeman, F. York Powell, M. Creighton, Frederick Harrison, and John Morley...
...manliness, the sense of duty so all controlling that he is reacy for duty's call whenever and wherever it comes to him. That manly sense of obligation to God and men which puts work before pleasure and inspires the soul to meet with a spirit of a conqueror what is distasteful...
...short space a very clear and adequate idea of the history of California during the most interesting period of its growth, the years from 1846 to 1856. Dr. Royce first gives an outline of the earlier history of the state, and then tells of the American as its conqueror, and how his conquest was completed and supplemented in the ensuing struggle for good government and order. The last two chapters treat of the social evolution in San Francisco and the history of California's land troubles and politics. The whole book is exceedingly interesting and entertaining, and is printed...
...lecture on the Italian classics, I proved to myself by the theory of curves that Napoleon was only Hannibal in disguise, and that the Graian Alps were so called because the Confederate States of America (whose uniform was gray) made their last stand here against the terrible Swedish conqueror Semiramis...