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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... town , but the foundations were already laid of the surprising supremacy which she has since acquired in the linen trade . Some 3,000 tons of flax were imported into the Scotch port in 1814. But the time was rapidly coming when the ...
... town , but the foundations were already laid of the surprising supremacy which she has since acquired in the linen trade . Some 3,000 tons of flax were imported into the Scotch port in 1814. But the time was rapidly coming when the ...
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... town is necessarily dependent on a road , so towns in the olden time were usually built on the best I. CHAP roads which were then available , the rivers HISTORY OF ENGLAND . 77.
... town is necessarily dependent on a road , so towns in the olden time were usually built on the best I. CHAP roads which were then available , the rivers HISTORY OF ENGLAND . 77.
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... towns of England were London , Bristol , and Norwich . Next to them in importance were York , the capital of the North , and ... town to another arises from the difference in the levels of the adjoining country . The Chinese , who were ...
... towns of England were London , Bristol , and Norwich . Next to them in importance were York , the capital of the North , and ... town to another arises from the difference in the levels of the adjoining country . The Chinese , who were ...
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... towns . It , indeed , no longer took , as it had taken seventy years before , two whole days to go from Birmingham to London in the summer season.1 But , at the time at which this history opens , the communication between London and ...
... towns . It , indeed , no longer took , as it had taken seventy years before , two whole days to go from Birmingham to London in the summer season.1 But , at the time at which this history opens , the communication between London and ...
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... towns at a speed of eleven miles an hour . Serious doubts were , however , freely expressed as to the wisdom of this reform . Four years previously , or in 1816 , the Trafalgar and Regulator coaches ran from Manchester to Liverpool in ...
... towns at a speed of eleven miles an hour . Serious doubts were , however , freely expressed as to the wisdom of this reform . Four years previously , or in 1816 , the Trafalgar and Regulator coaches ran from Manchester to Liverpool in ...
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