The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and Government from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times, Volume 1Bradbury and Evans, 1856 - Great Britain |
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... body of present readers , even twenty octavo volumes constitute a formidable undertaking . Hume was compendious compared with Rapin . But when we are con- tent to forget " the scoffing philosopher " in the narrative powers of one of the ...
... body of present readers , even twenty octavo volumes constitute a formidable undertaking . Hume was compendious compared with Rapin . But when we are con- tent to forget " the scoffing philosopher " in the narrative powers of one of the ...
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... body of students had submitted . Any system of education which dispenses with the study of our own history , however well it may teach other things , is learned ignorance . For it is not too much to say that the actual position of this ...
... body of students had submitted . Any system of education which dispenses with the study of our own history , however well it may teach other things , is learned ignorance . For it is not too much to say that the actual position of this ...
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... body of the people to be taxed only by their representatives— are each intimately associated with the universal progress in industry and knowledge . Thus it is that all our history , whether it be the history of government , of religion ...
... body of the people to be taxed only by their representatives— are each intimately associated with the universal progress in industry and knowledge . Thus it is that all our history , whether it be the history of government , of religion ...
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... body one chief Druid presided . The Druids were exempt from military service , and from the payment of taxes . Their ... bodies and of their motions , -of the extent of the world , and the people of distant climes . But there was another ...
... body one chief Druid presided . The Druids were exempt from military service , and from the payment of taxes . Their ... bodies and of their motions , -of the extent of the world , and the people of distant climes . But there was another ...
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... bodies of young oak trees . The map of England will show how direct a course it was from the country about Canter- bury to the Thames near Walton , without following the course of the river above London . Having crossed the Thames ...
... bodies of young oak trees . The map of England will show how direct a course it was from the country about Canter- bury to the Thames near Walton , without following the course of the river above London . Having crossed the Thames ...
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