Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia"Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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... French economists were then divided into two parties , one of which advocated a free trade in corn , and the other was opposed to it . An edict , published in 1764 , permitting the free exportation of corn , was followed by a rise of ...
... French economists were then divided into two parties , one of which advocated a free trade in corn , and the other was opposed to it . An edict , published in 1764 , permitting the free exportation of corn , was followed by a rise of ...
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... French had begun to be prosecuted with great vigour ; the kings of Denmark and Sweden ( the latter in his capacity of landgrave of Hesse Cassel ) having been subsidised , and a treaty of alliance concluded with Frederick III . of ...
... French had begun to be prosecuted with great vigour ; the kings of Denmark and Sweden ( the latter in his capacity of landgrave of Hesse Cassel ) having been subsidised , and a treaty of alliance concluded with Frederick III . of ...
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... French king . The general course of the war , almost from its commencement to its close , has already been sketched in the article BONAPARTE - NAPO- LEON I. We shall here merely enumerate in their chronological order the principal ...
... French king . The general course of the war , almost from its commencement to its close , has already been sketched in the article BONAPARTE - NAPO- LEON I. We shall here merely enumerate in their chronological order the principal ...
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... French , in 1803 ; the declaration of war by Spain , in December 1804 ; the threatened invasion by France , and Nelson's glorious victory of Trafalgar , in 1805 ; the unsuccessful attempt to negociate a peace , the capture of the Cape ...
... French , in 1803 ; the declaration of war by Spain , in December 1804 ; the threatened invasion by France , and Nelson's glorious victory of Trafalgar , in 1805 ; the unsuccessful attempt to negociate a peace , the capture of the Cape ...
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... French feet wide by fifteen high , and is almost one huge mass of life and character ; the drawing is correct , vigorous , and varied , the colouring vivid , and it is a perfect school of costume for the period : it has been engraved by ...
... French feet wide by fifteen high , and is almost one huge mass of life and character ; the drawing is correct , vigorous , and varied , the colouring vivid , and it is a perfect school of costume for the period : it has been engraved by ...
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الصفحة 95 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.
الصفحة 27 - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.
الصفحة 139 - ... with a tolerable voice, and now turned what was once my amusement into a present means of subsistence. I passed among the harmless peasants of Flanders, and among such of the French as were poor enough to be very merry; for I ever found them sprightly in proportion to their wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house, towards night-fall, I played one of my most merry tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day.
الصفحة 59 - An Act for the security of Her " Majesty's Person and Government, and of the " succession to the Crown of Great Britain in the
الصفحة 49 - Surest Way for a Nation to Increase in Riches, is to Prevent the Importation of Such Foreign Commodities as May Be Rais'd at Home.
الصفحة 59 - ... said kingdoms and dominions to be to the heirs of the body of the said princess and for default of such issue to the Princess Anne of Denmark and the heirs of her body and for default of such issue to the heirs of the body of the said Prince of Orange.
الصفحة 179 - You must know that I do not take degrees, and, after this term, shall have nothing more of college impertinences to undergo, which I trust will be some pleasure to you, as it is a great one to me. I have endured lectures daily and hourly since I came last, supported by the hopes of being shortly at full liberty to give myself up to my friends and classical companions...
الصفحة 63 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
الصفحة 73 - Windsor, on the evening of Saturday, the 29th of January, 1820, in the eighty-second year of his age, and the sixtieth of his reign.
الصفحة 441 - A Classical Tour through Italy and Sicily, tending to illustrate some Districts which have not been described by Mr. Eustace In his Classical Tour.