The Dictionary of English HistorySir Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling |
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... English history is every day attract- ing the interest of an ever - widening circle of readers , it is somewhat ... English history , political and constitutional , of all sizes and all degrees of merit , are at the easy command of the ...
... English history is every day attract- ing the interest of an ever - widening circle of readers , it is somewhat ... English history , political and constitutional , of all sizes and all degrees of merit , are at the easy command of the ...
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... English king relinquished all claims to Normandy , Anjou , Touraine , Maine , and Poitou ; but was guaranteed the possession of Guienne , which he was to continue to hold as a fief from the French crown . His territories in the south of ...
... English king relinquished all claims to Normandy , Anjou , Touraine , Maine , and Poitou ; but was guaranteed the possession of Guienne , which he was to continue to hold as a fief from the French crown . His territories in the south of ...
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... English influence , and after that no such measure was mooted , though the evil con- tinued to increase . In 1779 , Arthur Young estimated the amount of rent annually sent out of the country , at £ 732,000 . Almost every Irish historian ...
... English influence , and after that no such measure was mooted , though the evil con- tinued to increase . In 1779 , Arthur Young estimated the amount of rent annually sent out of the country , at £ 732,000 . Almost every Irish historian ...
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... English were allowed to cross the Somme , and Henry was courteously asked to name a day for battle . He answered that he was always to be found in the field . For four days the French marched by the side of the English . At last the ...
... English were allowed to cross the Somme , and Henry was courteously asked to name a day for battle . He answered that he was always to be found in the field . For four days the French marched by the side of the English . At last the ...
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Page 212 - I am one of those who have probably passed a longer period of my life engaged in war than most men, and principally, I may say, in civil war ; and I must say this — that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice whatever, even one month of civil war in the country to which I am attached, I would sacrifice my life in order to do it [cheers].
Page 12 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone.
Page 24 - I, AB, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and successors according to law. So HELP ME GOD!
Page 18 - ... the dark columns in their front, their measured tread shook the ground, their dreadful volleys swept away the head of every formation, their deafening shouts overpowered the dissonant cries that broke from all parts of the tumultuous crowd, as slowly and with a horrid carnage it was pushed by the incessant vigour of the attack to the farthest edge of the hill.
Page 227 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Page 301 - Proud prelate, you know what you were before I made you what you are. If you do not immediately comply with my request, by God I will unfrock you.
Page 68 - Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits to the Pacific Ocean...
Page 4 - An Admonition to the Nobility and People of England and Ireland concerning the present wars, made for the execution of His Holiness
Page 94 - The house of commons had an undoubted right of determining all disputed returns to the writ of election, and consequently of judging upon the right of every vote. But as the house could not pretend that it had given this right, or that it was not, like any other franchise, vested in the possessor by a legal title, no...