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The life of Tamerlane the Great, : with his wars against the great Duke of Moso, the King of China, Bajazet the great Turk, the Sultan of Egypt, the King of Persia, and some others, carried on with a continued series of success from the first to the last. Wherein are rare examples of heathenish piety, prudence, magnanimity, mercy, liberality, humility, justice, temperance, and valour

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1653.
Call number: 408494
Creator: Clarke, Samuel (1599-1682)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 4to
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The life of Tamerlane the Great, : with his wars against the Duke of Mosco, the King of China, Bajazet the great Turk, the Sultan of Egypt, the King of Persia, and some others, carried on with a continued series of success from the first to the last. Wherein are rare examples of heathenish piety, prudence, magnanimity, mercy, liberality, humility, justice, temperance, and valour
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The life & death of Hannibal the great captain of the Carthaginians, : who maintained wars against all the power of Rome for eighteen years together in Italy. As also the life and death of Epaminondas the great captain of the Thebans, who was famous both for his virtues and valour
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A collection of the lives of ten eminent divines, : famous in their generations for learning, prudence, piety, and painfulness in the work of the ministry. Whereunto is added, the life of Gustavus Ericson, King of Sueden [sic], who first reformed religion in that kingdome, and of some other eminent Christians
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A general martyrologie, containing a collection of all the greatest persecutions vvhich have befallen the church of Christ, from the creation, to our present times; : wherein is given an exact account of the Protestants sufferings in Queen Maries reign. Whereunto is added The lives of thirty two English divines, famous in their generations for learning and piety; ... Together, with the lives of Gustavus Ericson, King of Sweden; Jaspar Coligni, Admiral of France ... and Joan Queen of Navarr ... Likewise, of divers other Christians who were eminent for prudence and piety. ... You have also, lively represented, the divers manners of those cruel, horrid, and inhumane sufferings, ... in copper-plates. The third edition, corrected, and enlarged
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The marrow of ecclesiastical history, : divided into two parts: the first, containing the life of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ; with the lives of the ancient fathers, school-men, first-reformers, and modern divines. The second, containing the lives of Christian emperors, kings and sovereign princes. Whereunto are added the lives of inferiour Christians, who have lived in these latter centuries. And lastly, are subjoyned the lives of many of those, who by their vertue and valor obtained the sir-name of Great. Divers of which, give much light to sundry places of Scripture; especially to the prophecies concerning the four monarchies. Together with the lively effigies of the most eminent of them cut in copper. The third edition, corrected and somwhat enlarged
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Sir Antony Sherley his relation of his trauels into Persia. : The dangers, and distresses, which befell him in his passage, both by sea and land, and his strange and vnexpected deliuerances. His magnificent entertainement in Persia, his honourable imployment there-hence, as embassadour to the princes of Christendome, the cause of his disapointment therein, with his aduice to his brother, Sir Robert Sherley, also, a true relation of the great magnificence, valour, prudence, iustice, temperance, and other manifold vertues of Abas, now King of Persia, with his great conquests, whereby he hath inlarged his dominions. Penned by Sr. Antony Sherley, and recommended to his brother, Sr. Robert Sherley, being now in prosecution of the like honourable imployment
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