. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. or twopence; clean straw fornothing. On this straw, which soon became anything but clean, werestretched men and women, too helpless to move. At t
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. or twopence; clean straw fornothing. On this straw, which soon became anything but clean, werestretched men and women, too helpless to move. At the dinners among theupper classes the rule was for every one to drink until he slid under the table,and the man who held out longest exulted over his greater powers of was this awful degradation of the people that stirred the Wesleys and theirfriends to throw their hearts and energies into the work of lifting them out ofthe mire into which they had sunk. Instead of waiting for the miserablewretches to come to them, they went to the pitiful victims, and in the face ofpersecution, ridicule, and violence, did a work for their Master whose magni-tude can never be known until the last Great Day. George II. died of heart disease at Kensington on October 25, 1760. Hiseldest son having passed away nine )^ears before, he was succeeded by hisgrandson, George William Frederick, Prince of Wales, who was born in 1738and was of English
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