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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity; therefore I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life; but this narrative shall contain little more than the history of my writings; as, indeed, almost all m...
{1199.} THE noble and free genius of the ancients, which made the government of a single person be always regarded as a species of tyranny and usurpation, and kept them from for...
6. Chapter 6{978} THE freedom which England had so long enjoyed from the depredations of the Danes, seems to have proceeded, partly from the establishments which that piratical nation had o...
5. Chapter 5The Saxons, from the first introduction of Christianity among them, had admitted the use of images; and perhaps that religion, without some of those exterior ornaments, had not...
4. Chapter 4The curiosity entertained by all civilized nations, of inquiring into the exploits and adventures of their ancestors, commonly excites a regret that the history of remote ages s...
7. Chapter 7{1066.} _Nothing_ could exceed the consternation which seized the English when they received intelligence of the unfortunate battle of Hastings, the death of their king, the sla...
11. Chapter 11{1154.} The extensive confederacies, by which the European potentates are now at once united and set in opposition to each other, and which, though they are apt to diffuse the l...
12. Chapter 12{1172.} As Britain was first peopled from Gaul, so was Ireland probably from Britain; and the inhabitants of all these countries seem to have been so many tribes of the Celtae,...
9. Chapter 9{1100.} After the adventurers in the holy war were assembled on the banks of the Bosphorus, opposite to Constantinople, they proceeded on their enterprise; but immediately exper...
13. Chapter 13{1189.} The compunction of Richard, for his undutiful behavior towards his father, was durable, and influenced him in the choice of his ministers and servants after his accessio...
8. Chapter 8EMP. OF GERM. KINGS OF SCOTLAND. K. OF FRANCE. K. OF SPAIN. Henry IV. Malcolm III 1093 Philip I. Alphonso VI. Donald Bane, dep 1091 Duncan 1094 Donald Bane 1097 Edgar.
10. Chapter 10{1135.} IN the progress and settlement of the feudal law, the male succession to fiefs had taken place some time before the female was admitted; and estates, being considered as...
3. Chapter 3It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity; therefore I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life; bu...
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