History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles: 1713 - 1783 : In Seven Volumes, Volume 5Tauchnitz, 1853 |
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... Session • Retirement of Speaker Onslow Changes in the administration New Elections The King's marriage announced Character of Queen Charlotte She arrives in England The Coronation Campaign in Silesia Schweidnitz taken by the Austrians ...
... Session • Retirement of Speaker Onslow Changes in the administration New Elections The King's marriage announced Character of Queen Charlotte She arrives in England The Coronation Campaign in Silesia Schweidnitz taken by the Austrians ...
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... Sessions of 1749 and 1750 were marked by several important measures . It was proposed by the Government to grant 100,000l . to the Empress Queen , and a smaller sum to some smaller German princes , beyond the subsidies sti- pulated ...
... Sessions of 1749 and 1750 were marked by several important measures . It was proposed by the Government to grant 100,000l . to the Empress Queen , and a smaller sum to some smaller German princes , beyond the subsidies sti- pulated ...
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... Session ; after which the House thinned . " During this period the nation , little stirred by the strug- gles of party , was making silent , and therefore , perhaps , the more rapid , strides in prosperity . Our manufactures at home ...
... Session ; after which the House thinned . " During this period the nation , little stirred by the strug- gles of party , was making silent , and therefore , perhaps , the more rapid , strides in prosperity . Our manufactures at home ...
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... Session , Pelham , with ill - judged * Anecdotes of his own Times , p . 196. Dr. King limits the stay of Prince Charles in London to five days only ; but , as we have seen , Charles himself , in 1783 , ( and this seems the better ...
... Session , Pelham , with ill - judged * Anecdotes of his own Times , p . 196. Dr. King limits the stay of Prince Charles in London to five days only ; but , as we have seen , Charles himself , in 1783 , ( and this seems the better ...
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... Session was the Reformation of the Calendar . The error of the Old Style , now grown to eleven days , had long since been corrected by most civilized nations , and acknowledged by all . Only England , with Russia and Sweden , clung to ...
... Session was the Reformation of the Calendar . The error of the Old Style , now grown to eleven days , had long since been corrected by most civilized nations , and acknowledged by all . Only England , with Russia and Sweden , clung to ...
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