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Franklin’s bookshop in Philadelphia Frontispiece
Moses praying on Mount Sinai 5
David playing his harp before King Saul 9
Homer, the blind poet 11
Socrates takes the cup of poison from his judges 18
Alexander the Great at one of his luxurious banquets 23
The assassination of CÆsar 28
Charlemagne is crowned Emperor of the Western World at Rome 35
King Alfred divides his last loaf of bread with the poor beggar 39
King William wounded in single combat 45
King Richard forgives Bertrand de Gurdun 48
The victorious return of Joan of Arc to Orleans 55
Shakespeare among his friends in London 59
Oliver Cromwell visiting the poet Milton 63
Emperor Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo 70
Nelson receiving the sword of the Spanish admiral 74
Columbus pleading his cause before King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella 81
Ferdinand Magellan 85
Hernando Cortes 90
The capture of the city of Mexico by Cortes 93
De Soto on the bank of the Mississippi 100
Queen Elizabeth knighting Drake on board the “Golden Hind” 107
The boyhood of Raleigh 110
The discovery of the Hudson River 117
The ships of France at the mouth of the Mississippi 124

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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