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4. Heavenly bodies, especially those connected with the solar system,

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their sizes, distances, and revolutions.

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1. Chapter 1 2. 1. Noted people, their nationality, the time when they flourished, and 3. 2. Epochs, important movements, and events in history, with the dates and 4. 3. Countries, provinces, and towns, with descriptions of them, their 5. 4. Heavenly bodies, especially those connected with the solar system, 6. 6. Mythologies, and the account they severally give of the divine and 7. 7. Religions of the world, with their respective credos and objects and 8. 8. Schools of philosophy, with their theories of things and of the 9. 9. Sects and parties, under the different systems of belief or polity, 10. 10. Books of the world, especially the sacred ones, and the spiritual 11. 11. Legends and fables, especially such as are more or less of world 12. 13. Fraternities, religious and other, with their symbols and 13. 15. Institutions for behoof of some special interest, secular or sacred, 14. 16. Holidays and festivals, with what they commemorate, and the rites and 15. 17. Science, literature, and art in general, but these chiefly in 16. 1847. On his release in 1852 he became a faithful friend of France 17. 32. He is said to have slept every night with his Homer and his sword 18. 1885. On a plateau 4000 ft. above sea-level, the climate is suited for 19. 79. It takes its name from a castle built on it by the Emperor Frederick 20. book did not extend to himself, for he died poor, some ten days before 21. 558. C. II., son of Siegbert and Brunhilda, king of Austrasia, 22. 1268. C. V., Bertrand de Goth, Pope from 1305 to 1314; transferred 23. 670. C. IV., king of ditto from 717 to 720. 24. introduction of English as the vehicle of instruction in the Christian 25. BOOK III. CHAP. I. 26. episode which incensed his father, and nearly brought him to the 27. 2. Capital (78) of the canton, occupies a splendid geographical position 28. 18. There are several other saints of the same name. 29. 1870. The Government is a constitutional monarchy. Franchise is 30. Introduction to the Old Testament, with Grammar, Lexicons, &c., in 31. introduction of its woollen manufacture to the settlement in it of 32. 54. The British remains are much more recent, belonging entirely to the 33. 1882. London has a University (an examining body), 700 colleges and 34. 1812. In the Civil War a hundred battles were fought within the State and

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