A history of England, from the conclusion of the great war in 1815 [to 1858].Longmans, Green, and Company, 1879 - Great Britain |
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... four years before , into the sword ; the sword was to be converted into a pruning - hook . The face of Europe had been rudely disfigured by the bloodshed and the burnings , the sieges and the massacres , VOL . I. 오 B CHAP . I. France ...
... four years before , into the sword ; the sword was to be converted into a pruning - hook . The face of Europe had been rudely disfigured by the bloodshed and the burnings , the sieges and the massacres , VOL . I. 오 B CHAP . I. France ...
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... four preceding years ; but the map of Europe had not been materially changed by the victories and defeats which had taken place in the period . The conqueror of the world had been driven back within his original boundaries , and the ...
... four preceding years ; but the map of Europe had not been materially changed by the victories and defeats which had taken place in the period . The conqueror of the world had been driven back within his original boundaries , and the ...
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... four years . During the course of it every power but one deserted in turn the cause which had been undertaken in common ; every power but one suffered the penalty of a French invasion . England alone , with one short interval of peace ...
... four years . During the course of it every power but one deserted in turn the cause which had been undertaken in common ; every power but one suffered the penalty of a French invasion . England alone , with one short interval of peace ...
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... four separate occasions , to raise money by loan , and took the burden of the debt upon its own shoulders . Two more centuries elapsed before the legis- lature , in the reign of Charles II . , formally authorised the crown to issue ...
... four separate occasions , to raise money by loan , and took the burden of the debt upon its own shoulders . Two more centuries elapsed before the legis- lature , in the reign of Charles II . , formally authorised the crown to issue ...
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... four great financiers whom this country has produced . But Charles Montagu's invention of exchequer bills was not the only innovation in the art of borrowing for which the reign of William and Mary is remarkable . It was in this reign ...
... four great financiers whom this country has produced . But Charles Montagu's invention of exchequer bills was not the only innovation in the art of borrowing for which the reign of William and Mary is remarkable . It was in this reign ...
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