The Historians' History of the World: Scotland, Ireland, England since 1792Henry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 - World History |
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... party no longer aimed at supporting a rival candidate for the throne , the spirit which had animated the conduct of ... parties whose contentions long disturbed the peace of the country , and hardly were the ashes of Alexander deposited ...
... party no longer aimed at supporting a rival candidate for the throne , the spirit which had animated the conduct of ... parties whose contentions long disturbed the peace of the country , and hardly were the ashes of Alexander deposited ...
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... party , without any considerable success . His enterprise was regarded as desperate , even by his own wife ( according to the English authorities ) , who , while he boasted to her of the sovereign rank he had obtained , said to him ...
... party , without any considerable success . His enterprise was regarded as desperate , even by his own wife ( according to the English authorities ) , who , while he boasted to her of the sovereign rank he had obtained , said to him ...
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... party hatred added an eager desire to revenge the death of his kinsman slain by Bruce . The time seemed favourable for his purpose , for Bruce was at this time afflicted with a lingering and wasting distemper , which impaired his health ...
... party hatred added an eager desire to revenge the death of his kinsman slain by Bruce . The time seemed favourable for his purpose , for Bruce was at this time afflicted with a lingering and wasting distemper , which impaired his health ...
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... party of light troops , to march round the moun- tain and turn the pass , thus attacking the defenders in front , flank , and rear at once . They were routed with great slaughter . The lords of Lorn , father and son , escaped by sea ...
... party of light troops , to march round the moun- tain and turn the pass , thus attacking the defenders in front , flank , and rear at once . They were routed with great slaughter . The lords of Lorn , father and son , escaped by sea ...
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... party of Irish chiefs sent an invitation to Edward Bruce to come over with a force adequate to expel the English from Ireland , and assume the sceptre . By consent of King Robert , who was pleased to make a diversion against England ...
... party of Irish chiefs sent an invitation to Edward Bruce to come over with a force adequate to expel the English from Ireland , and assume the sceptre . By consent of King Robert , who was pleased to make a diversion against England ...
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Page 561 - London, the town council of any borough for the time being subject to the act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled " An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales...
Page 397 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 455 - May the great GOD, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet...
Page 230 - Do what you can/ continue they, ' out of hand, and without long tarrying to beat down and overthrow the castle ; sack Holyrood House, and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye conveniently can; sack Leith, and burn and subvert it, and all the rest, putting man, woman, and child to fire and sword, without exception, when any resistance shall be made against you.
Page 559 - Reforms should have been interrupted and endangered by the dissolution of a Parliament earnestly intent upon the vigorous prosecution of measures to which the wishes of the people were most anxiously and justly directed.
Page 481 - Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted . . . that whereas by reason of some defects in the law poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy...
Page 283 - It was a mad roaring time, full of extravagance ; and no wonder it was so, when the men of affairs were almost perpetually drunk.
Page 524 - It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign has its claims also.
Page 106 - I will, that as soon as I shall be dead, you take my heart from my body, and have it well embalmed; you will also take as much money from my treasury as...
Page 512 - To this charge, as I understand it, I am willing to plead guilty. A representative of the people, I am one of the people; and I present myself to those who choose me only with the claims of character, (be they what they may,) unaccredited by patrician patronage or party recommendation.