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The book of similitudes: (1860)

Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885. [from old catalog] · New Haven, Conn., Pub. for the author by J. H. Bradley · leaf 381

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and died at Tunis in the year1270, where he had gone on an expedition againstthe Mohammedans. These barbarous expeditions agitated, convulsedand distressed every family in Europe for two hun-dred years. It is computed that during the time ofthe crusades more than two millions of Europeanswere… … FOURTEENTH CENTURY. The mariners compass is said to have been discovered at Na-ples in 1302. Gunpowder, which has changed the system ofwarfare, is supposed to have been invented in 1340, by Swartz,a monk of Cologne. In 1352 the Turks first entered Europe.John WiclcUffe, an Englishman, appealing to…

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