History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854. With an Introduction 1800 to 1815, Volume 2Walker, Wise,, 1865 - Great Britain |
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Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854. With an Introduction 1800 to 1815 Harriet Martineau. CONTENTS . BOOK I. Savings - banks . • • Peace of Paris . Holy Alliance 1815 . Congress of Vienna . Secret Treaty .. Paris in the Autumn ...
Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854. With an Introduction 1800 to 1815 Harriet Martineau. CONTENTS . BOOK I. Savings - banks . • • Peace of Paris . Holy Alliance 1815 . Congress of Vienna . Secret Treaty .. Paris in the Autumn ...
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... England and Austria had begun to feel that ambi- tions might arise as adverse to the just balance of power as the humbled ambition of France itself . A voice had gone forth from the British parliament to protest against the annexation ...
... England and Austria had begun to feel that ambi- tions might arise as adverse to the just balance of power as the humbled ambition of France itself . A voice had gone forth from the British parliament to protest against the annexation ...
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... England . They had labored strenuously , and they had labored with tolerable suc- cess , for the abolition of the slave - trade . In the Treaty of Utrecht , England protected her commercial interests des- picable protection ! by ...
... England . They had labored strenuously , and they had labored with tolerable suc- cess , for the abolition of the slave - trade . In the Treaty of Utrecht , England protected her commercial interests des- picable protection ! by ...
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... England in 1816 , for it was a treaty of mutual concession and liberality . Had Lord Castlereagh said to the House of Commons , " I have made trade free , " he would have been hooted . The ship - owners would have clamored for their ...
... England in 1816 , for it was a treaty of mutual concession and liberality . Had Lord Castlereagh said to the House of Commons , " I have made trade free , " he would have been hooted . The ship - owners would have clamored for their ...
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Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854. With an Introduction 1800 to 1815 Harriet Martineau. The Rhenish provinces were , in 1815 , bestowed upon Prussia a fertile territory , an industrious people . By the Peace of Tilsit ...
Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854. With an Introduction 1800 to 1815 Harriet Martineau. The Rhenish provinces were , in 1815 , bestowed upon Prussia a fertile territory , an industrious people . By the Peace of Tilsit ...
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Page 186 - Antiquity deserveth that reverence, that men should make a stand thereupon and discover what is the best way; but when the discovery is well taken, then to make progression.
Page 341 - I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
Page 336 - You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent...
Page 439 - That the King's most excellent Majesty, and the Lords and Commons of Ireland, are the only power competent to make laws to bind Ireland.
Page 2 - The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. All crimes shall cease, and ancient fraud shall fail ; Returning justice lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, And white-robed innocence from heaven descend.
Page 138 - They are not skilful considerers of human things, who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin...
Page 384 - That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due regard to the well-being of the parties concerned.
Page 436 - ... as are consistent with the laws of Ireland, or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles II. ; and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman catholics such further security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Page 253 - ... whilst over the whole field, were strewed caps, bonnets, hats, shawls, and shoes, and other parts of male and female dress; trampled, torn, and bloody. The yeomanry had dismounted, — some were easing their horses...
Page 98 - Egypt for badness: and the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning.