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HI STORY OF EUROPE ,
FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN 1789 TO THE
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By Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart., D.C.L.
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Times, Sept. 7, 1850.
“ An extraordinary work, which has earned for itself a lasting place in the literature of the
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