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A Diſcourſe
Book II.

with the Massacres of this one Nation, the Warrs of the Christian world for some years. And yet how small and inconsiderable is either this Country or people; in comparison of all Europe?


Chap. XXII.

Of the Calamities of the Græcians and Romans too occasioned by Warr. the vast number of Men slain by some particular Commanders. The Desolations of the new found world, and the miseries of captivity.

Not to stay here any longer; let us pass over into Greece, to recount orderly all those warrs they maintained both against forraigners and amongst themselves; would be too tedious and to little purpose. This

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