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... held Charles so long in check lay crushed at his feet . A weaker man might easily have been led to play the mere tyrant by the mad outburst of loyalty which greeted his triumph . On the very day when the crowd around Russell's scaffold ...
... held Charles so long in check lay crushed at his feet . A weaker man might easily have been led to play the mere tyrant by the mad outburst of loyalty which greeted his triumph . On the very day when the crowd around Russell's scaffold ...
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... held aloof when he landed at Lyme and demanded an effective parliamentary government as well as freedom of worship for Protestant Nonconformists the farmers and traders of Devonshire and Dorset flocked to his standard . The clothier ...
... held aloof when he landed at Lyme and demanded an effective parliamentary government as well as freedom of worship for Protestant Nonconformists the farmers and traders of Devonshire and Dorset flocked to his standard . The clothier ...
Side 9
... held stubbornly aloof ; while the Guards and the regiments from Tangier hurried to the scene of the revolt and the militia gathered to the royal standard . Foiled in an attempt on Bristol and Bath , Monmouth fell back on Bridgewater ...
... held stubbornly aloof ; while the Guards and the regiments from Tangier hurried to the scene of the revolt and the militia gathered to the royal standard . Foiled in an attempt on Bristol and Bath , Monmouth fell back on Bridgewater ...
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... held in check by the merciless cruelties with which the royal troops avenged the " rabbling of priests " and the out- rages committed by the Whigs on the more prominent persecutors . Such a revolt threw strength into the hands of the ...
... held in check by the merciless cruelties with which the royal troops avenged the " rabbling of priests " and the out- rages committed by the Whigs on the more prominent persecutors . Such a revolt threw strength into the hands of the ...
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... held stubbornly to their legal head . It was in vain that the King visited Oxford , summoned them to his presence , and rated them as they knelt before him like schoolboys . " I am King , " he said ; " I will be obeyed ! Go to your ...
... held stubbornly to their legal head . It was in vain that the King visited Oxford , summoned them to his presence , and rated them as they knelt before him like schoolboys . " I am King , " he said ; " I will be obeyed ! Go to your ...
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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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