Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 2S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 169
... continued but for one year longer , most certainly expose the liberties of or for a limited term of years . How our country ; those liberties , for which absurd is this distinction ? Is there our ancestors have so often ventured any ...
... continued but for one year longer , most certainly expose the liberties of or for a limited term of years . How our country ; those liberties , for which absurd is this distinction ? Is there our ancestors have so often ventured any ...
Page 371
... continued ; " thou know'st of the astonished courtiers formed vari- this affair - dost thou not ? " 66 ous groups , and were whispering " Not , gracious Madam , that this mysteriously together , while all kept poor lady was Countess of ...
... continued ; " thou know'st of the astonished courtiers formed vari- this affair - dost thou not ? " 66 ous groups , and were whispering " Not , gracious Madam , that this mysteriously together , while all kept poor lady was Countess of ...
Page 390
... continued three days , in which were destroyed 13,000 houses , and 400 streets . Tea first used in England . 1667 The peace of Breda , which confirms to the English the New Netherlands , now known by the names of Pennsylvania , New York ...
... continued three days , in which were destroyed 13,000 houses , and 400 streets . Tea first used in England . 1667 The peace of Breda , which confirms to the English the New Netherlands , now known by the names of Pennsylvania , New York ...
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On the Constitution of England Montesquieu | 3 |
Necessity of the Union | 23 |
The Feudal System | 30 |
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