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... English statesman he found he had been duped . Now that his work was done he was suffered to remain in office but left without any influence in the government . Hyde , who was created Earl of Rochester , still remained at the head of ...
... English statesman he found he had been duped . Now that his work was done he was suffered to remain in office but left without any influence in the government . Hyde , who was created Earl of Rochester , still remained at the head of ...
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... English seamen , who had been deprived of his command for a refusal to vote against the Test . The Invitation called ... English freedom and English Protestantism , but fling the whole weight of England in the contest for the liberties ...
... English seamen , who had been deprived of his command for a refusal to vote against the Test . The Invitation called ... English freedom and English Protestantism , but fling the whole weight of England in the contest for the liberties ...
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... English lords to regard as an impos- He again therefore fell back on France which made new advances to him in the hope of meeting this fresh danger of an attack from England ; and in the end of October he dismissed Sunderland from ...
... English lords to regard as an impos- He again therefore fell back on France which made new advances to him in the hope of meeting this fresh danger of an attack from England ; and in the end of October he dismissed Sunderland from ...
Side 36
... English freedom . It was with universal approval that the English Government declared war against Lewis . It was soon followed in this step by Holland , and the two countries at once agreed to stand by one another in their struggle ...
... English freedom . It was with universal approval that the English Government declared war against Lewis . It was soon followed in this step by Holland , and the two countries at once agreed to stand by one another in their struggle ...
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... English sovereign has been able to advance any claim to the crown save a claim which rested on a particular clause in a particular Act of Parliament . William , Mary , and Anne , were sovereigns simply by virtue of the Bill of Rights ...
... English sovereign has been able to advance any claim to the crown save a claim which rested on a particular clause in a particular Act of Parliament . William , Mary , and Anne , were sovereigns simply by virtue of the Bill of Rights ...
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Side 258 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Side 233 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Side 304 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Side 197 - Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities ; one as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power. The other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character ; in which, as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all without annihilating any.
Side 40 - WORDS AND PLACES ; or, Etymological Illustrations of History, Ethnology, and Geography. By the Rev. ISAAC TAYLOR. Third Edition, revised and compressed. With Maps. Globe 8vo. 6s.
Side 2 - THE ALBERT N"YANZA Great Basin of the Nile, and Exploration of the Nile Sources. Fifth Edition. Maps and Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 6s. " Charmingly written;" says the SPECTATOR, "full, as might be expected, of incident, and free from that wearisome reiteration of useless facts which is the drawback to almost all books of African travel.
Side 168 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Side 34 - Holland.— THE TREATY RELATIONS OF RUSSIA AND TURKEY FROM 1774 TO 1853. A Lecture delivered at Oxford, April 1877. By TE HOLLAND, DCL, Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Oxford. Crown 8vo.
Side 33 - COMPARATIVE POLITICS.— Lectures at the Royal Institution. To which is added the " Unity of History," the Rede Lecture at Cambridge, 1872.
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