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... FRENCH- MARLBOROUGH GOES IN COMMAND OF THE BRITISH CONTINGENT -HOW HE BECAME COMMANDER OF THE ALLIED FORCE - MARL- BOROUGH'S SEIZURE OF THE FORTIFIED TOWNS , 170-233 CHAPTER VI . The War . ( Continued . ) MARLBOROUGH RETURNS HOME - AN ...
... FRENCH- MARLBOROUGH GOES IN COMMAND OF THE BRITISH CONTINGENT -HOW HE BECAME COMMANDER OF THE ALLIED FORCE - MARL- BOROUGH'S SEIZURE OF THE FORTIFIED TOWNS , 170-233 CHAPTER VI . The War . ( Continued . ) MARLBOROUGH RETURNS HOME - AN ...
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... French king , in hopes of disturbing the peace and repose of your Majesty and your kingdoms , and creating divi- sions therein , hath , since the making of the said Act , caused the pretended Prince of Wales to be pro- claimed in your ...
... French king , in hopes of disturbing the peace and repose of your Majesty and your kingdoms , and creating divi- sions therein , hath , since the making of the said Act , caused the pretended Prince of Wales to be pro- claimed in your ...
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... French archæologists— see ' L'Art de vérifier les dates des faits historiques , des chartes , ' & c . , iii . 798 et seq . The conclusions on this matter are briefly told in the chapter on " Regnal Years of the Kings of England , " in ...
... French archæologists— see ' L'Art de vérifier les dates des faits historiques , des chartes , ' & c . , iii . 798 et seq . The conclusions on this matter are briefly told in the chapter on " Regnal Years of the Kings of England , " in ...
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... French wife of Charles I. In the year 1683 the Princess Anne had been married to George , Prince of Denmark , the brother of King Christian V. He was forty - eight years old at the time of his wife's accession . The neutrality of his ...
... French wife of Charles I. In the year 1683 the Princess Anne had been married to George , Prince of Denmark , the brother of King Christian V. He was forty - eight years old at the time of his wife's accession . The neutrality of his ...
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... French historian , may amuse us by its an- tagonism to our own associations with the character of the British con- stitution ; and yet in the historical facts referred to it is not easy to deny that , as his countrymen say , the author ...
... French historian , may amuse us by its an- tagonism to our own associations with the character of the British con- stitution ; and yet in the historical facts referred to it is not easy to deny that , as his countrymen say , the author ...
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Page 47 - ... that in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever ; and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous...
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Page 78 - I, AB, do declare, That I do believe that there is not any transubstantiation in the sacrament of the Lord's supper, or in the elements of bread and wine, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever.