. 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. until paymentwas made of the debt. The body had to wait until the matter could bearranged. In the words of the old chronicle, He who had been a p
. 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. until paymentwas made of the debt. The body had to wait until the matter could bearranged. In the words of the old chronicle, He who had been a powerfulKing, and the lord of so many territories, possessed not then of all his landsmore than seven feet of earth, and even that did not become his until it waspaid for. Three sons, as we have seen, survived William the Conqueror, besides adaughter Adela who married Stephen, Count of Blois, a prominent French no-bleman. Robert, the eldest son, secured Normandy. He had long been inrevolt against his father, and at one time was disinherited. There is a storythat father and son encountered, unknown to each other, upon the field of unhorsed his father, and would have slain him, but suddenly recognizinghis defeated foe, knelt and asked for pardon. A partial reconciliation was soon broken again, but Robert was allowed to inherit Normandy. William, the second son, called Rufus because of the color of his hair. >-^^^.
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