An Introductory History of England ...: From the restoration to the beginning of the great war. 1909E. P. Dutton, 1909 |
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An Introductory History of England: From the Restoration to the beginning of ... Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher Visualització completa - 1909 |
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Pàgina 280 - Our vows, our prayers, we now present Before thy throne of grace : God of our fathers ! be the God Of their succeeding race.
Pàgina 310 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Pàgina 259 - Some say that we wan, and some say that they wan, And some say that nane wan at a", man ; But of ae thing I'm sure, that on Sheriff-muir A battle there was that I saw, man.
Pàgina 232 - Advocate MacKenyie, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom, had been to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his long, dark, curled locks, streaming down...
Pàgina 169 - See this dragon, Excise, Has ten thousand eyes, And five thousand mouths to devour us ; A sting and sharp claws, With wide-gaping jaws, And a belly as big as a storehouse.
Pàgina 2 - ... rather than in the particular facts and circumstances of the diplomatic situation at the moment. He had no sympathy with a cynical class of criticism afterwards fashionable in regard to these events, which regarded the war as merely the result of unconscious blundering and ignorant miscalculations. The final judgment on the affairs of a bygone period has to be founded on something besides the critical study of State Papers and the accurate comparison of the dates of the despatches of Ministers,...
Pàgina 80 - RIGHTS (qv) settled, in positive terms, ' that the raising and keeping of a standing army in time of peace, without consent of parliament, is contrary to law.
Pàgina 100 - I WISH, Dr Slop,' quoth my uncle Toby, (repeating his wish for Dr Slop a second time, and with a degree of more zeal and earnestness in his manner of wishing, than he had wished at first) - 'I wish, Dr Slop,' quoth my uncle Toby, 'you had seen what prodigious armies we had in Flanders.
Pàgina 107 - That in case the crown and imperial dignity of this realm shall hereafter come to any person not being a native of this kingdom of England this nation be not obliged to engage in any war for the defence of any dominions or territories which do not belong to the crown of England without the consent of Parliament.
Pàgina 120 - Money (which you don't want in England) will buy fine Clothes and fine Horses, but it cannot buy that lively air which I see in every one of those Troopers Faces.