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... alliance with France furnished Charles with the funds he immediately required , and the rapid growth of the customs through the increase of English com- merce promised to give him a revenue which , if peace were preserved , would save ...
... alliance with France furnished Charles with the funds he immediately required , and the rapid growth of the customs through the increase of English com- merce promised to give him a revenue which , if peace were preserved , would save ...
Side 21
... Alliance , they vanished in 1687 before the Declaration of Indulgence . It was at this moment , at the end of May , that James called on him and Mary to declare themselves in favour of the abolition of the penal laws and of the Test ...
... Alliance , they vanished in 1687 before the Declaration of Indulgence . It was at this moment , at the end of May , that James called on him and Mary to declare themselves in favour of the abolition of the penal laws and of the Test ...
Side 36
... alliance against France on which he was bent was a step that still had to be made . Already indeed his action in England had told decisively on the contest . The blunder of Lewis in choosing Germany instead of Holland for his point of ...
... alliance against France on which he was bent was a step that still had to be made . Already indeed his action in England had told decisively on the contest . The blunder of Lewis in choosing Germany instead of Holland for his point of ...
Side 37
... Alliance of the European powers which William had designed ; and the union of Savoy with the allies Scotland girt France in on every side save that of Switzerland with a ring of foes . Lewis was left without a single ally save the Turk ...
... Alliance of the European powers which William had designed ; and the union of Savoy with the allies Scotland girt France in on every side save that of Switzerland with a ring of foes . Lewis was left without a single ally save the Turk ...
Side 41
... Alliance . A staff of French officers with arms , ammunition , and a supply of money was placed therefore at the service of the exiled King , and the news of his coming no sooner reached Dublin at the opening of 1689 than Tyrconnell ...
... Alliance . A staff of French officers with arms , ammunition , and a supply of money was placed therefore at the service of the exiled King , and the news of his coming no sooner reached Dublin at the opening of 1689 than Tyrconnell ...
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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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