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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... succeeded Waterloo , Englishmen enjoyed less real liberty than at any time since the Revolution of 1688. The great majority of the people had no voice in the Legislature . Political power was in the hands of a few fortunate individuals ...
... succeeded Waterloo , Englishmen enjoyed less real liberty than at any time since the Revolution of 1688. The great majority of the people had no voice in the Legislature . Political power was in the hands of a few fortunate individuals ...
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... succeeded by a new rivalry in trade and industry . The ploughshare had been beaten , twenty - 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 ...
... succeeded by a new rivalry in trade and industry . The ploughshare had been beaten , twenty - 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 ...
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... succeeded them . The force of the flood swept away the men who had 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 ...
... succeeded them . The force of the flood swept away the men who had 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 ...
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... succeeded to all the hereditary posses- sions which his brother Charles had held in Germany . He acquired the kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage . Enlarged by these acquisitions , Austria main- tained its position in Europe for ...
... succeeded to all the hereditary posses- sions which his brother Charles had held in Germany . He acquired the kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage . Enlarged by these acquisitions , Austria main- tained its position in Europe for ...
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... successive relays of the population through the ranks , they succeeded , in an incredibly short time , in training an entire people to the use of arms . Prussia was thus enabled , when the French met with their first 12 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... successive relays of the population through the ranks , they succeeded , in an incredibly short time , in training an entire people to the use of arms . Prussia was thus enabled , when the French met with their first 12 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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