A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1878 - Great Britain |
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... raised to some of the greatest histories which the world has yet seen . The Author relies for replying to it on the avowed intention of one great authority . Macaulay , when he commenced his immortal history , contemplated as a final ...
... raised to some of the greatest histories which the world has yet seen . The Author relies for replying to it on the avowed intention of one great authority . Macaulay , when he commenced his immortal history , contemplated as a final ...
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... raised France to a position of unprecedented importance and power . Riche- lieu and Mazarin had increased the influence of their country abroad ; Colbert had studded it with lasting monuments of the internal prosperity which he had him ...
... raised France to a position of unprecedented importance and power . Riche- lieu and Mazarin had increased the influence of their country abroad ; Colbert had studded it with lasting monuments of the internal prosperity which he had him ...
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... raised the sluice gates . The mild despotism of the Bourbons was followed by the san- guinary despotism of the people . France lay weltering in its own blood , and the rest of Europe stood aghast at the spectacle . The inevitable ...
... raised the sluice gates . The mild despotism of the Bourbons was followed by the san- guinary despotism of the people . France lay weltering in its own blood , and the rest of Europe stood aghast at the spectacle . The inevitable ...
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... Austria still remained the autocratic head of a huge and disorganised territory , a numerous and discontented people . The ability of his minister Metternich raised CHAP . I. I. CHAP . him to the first rank among the HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... Austria still remained the autocratic head of a huge and disorganised territory , a numerous and discontented people . The ability of his minister Metternich raised CHAP . I. I. CHAP . him to the first rank among the HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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... raised his country for the first time in her story to the front rank in Europe , and against overwhelming odds had brought the Seven Years War to an honourable and advantageous conclusion . The great king's son had been the first to ...
... raised his country for the first time in her story to the front rank in Europe , and against overwhelming odds had brought the Seven Years War to an honourable and advantageous conclusion . The great king's son had been the first to ...
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