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... wars . This change was apparently a retrograde one ; it introduced a new race of para- mount landlords by dispossessing the former owners of the soil ; the possessions of an entire community were sequestered , and the peasantry disposed ...
... wars . This change was apparently a retrograde one ; it introduced a new race of para- mount landlords by dispossessing the former owners of the soil ; the possessions of an entire community were sequestered , and the peasantry disposed ...
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... war were not at once very decisive . The reign of Charles was overthrown , and the king beheaded ; but the supremacy of the Commons was not abiding : and the military despotism of Cromwell being soon found to be more intolerable than ...
... war were not at once very decisive . The reign of Charles was overthrown , and the king beheaded ; but the supremacy of the Commons was not abiding : and the military despotism of Cromwell being soon found to be more intolerable than ...
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... war with France - a war that called forth all the energies of Britain , and made her great almost in spite of herself . The national character had taken a long time - no less than seventeen hundred years to mature ; but it had now ...
... war with France - a war that called forth all the energies of Britain , and made her great almost in spite of herself . The national character had taken a long time - no less than seventeen hundred years to mature ; but it had now ...
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... wars that followed . From the conclusion of peace with the Americans there was nothing to dis- turb her until the outbreak of the great war in 1793 , when the French , after having deposed and mur- dered their king , came back to renew ...
... wars that followed . From the conclusion of peace with the Americans there was nothing to dis- turb her until the outbreak of the great war in 1793 , when the French , after having deposed and mur- dered their king , came back to renew ...
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... war materials , England works cheaper and better than all the other powers ; and her private firms can turn out on a pressure as much of them as all the Government manufactories in all the other countries taken together . Most of those ...
... war materials , England works cheaper and better than all the other powers ; and her private firms can turn out on a pressure as much of them as all the Government manufactories in all the other countries taken together . Most of those ...
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الصفحة 138 - I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum.
الصفحة 216 - I know very well," he says in his journal, " that the Swedes will have the advantage of us for a considerable time; but they will teach us at length to beat them.
الصفحة 221 - The latter power adhered to the Continental system, reserving to herself the importation of salt and such colonial produce as she could not do without. She surrendered Finland with the whole of East Bothnia, and a part of West Bothnia lying to the eastward of the river Tornea.
الصفحة 232 - We must progress as much as possible in the direction of Constantinople and India. He who can once get possession of these points is the real ruler of the world. With this view we must provoke constant quarrels — at one time with Turkey, and at another with Persia.
الصفحة 232 - We must establish wharves and docks in the Euxine, and by degrees make ourselves masters of that sea as well as of the Baltic, which is a doubly important element in the success of our plan. We must hasten the downfall of Persia, push on to the Persian Gulf, if possible re-establish...
الصفحة 216 - I dare hope," said he, at the same time, " that God will look upon me with a merciful eye for all the good that I have done to my country!
الصفحة 280 - Samarang," that they had previously fired on an American vessel and driven her off the coast, when she came, in humanity and friendship, to restore some shipwrecked Japanese. This happened in 1837. In the course of the year 1831, a Japanese junk was blown off the coast into the Pacific Ocean, and, after drifting for a long time, was cast ashore in America, near the mouth of the Columbia river. [This incident alone may help to show how the West may have been peopled from the East — how the population...
الصفحة 137 - The result of this despotic act was that, rather than conform to the established religion, 400,000 Protestants — among the most industrious, the most intelligent, and the most religious of the nation — quitted France, and took refuge in Great Britain, Holland, Prussia, Switzerland, and America. The loss to France was immense; the gain to other countries, no less. Composed largely of merchants, manufacturers, and skilled artisans, they carried with them their knowledge, taste, and aptitude for...
الصفحة 220 - Paul, which took place on the night of the au' 23d March, and led immediately to the accession of his son ALEXANDER, and a total change of policy on the part of the cabinet of St Petersburg. Napoleon announced this important event to the French in these words, " Paul I. died on the night of the 23d March. The English fleet passed the Sound on the 30th. History will unveil the connexion which may have existed between these events.
الصفحة 181 - ... of the empire. To a few of the greater states, the peace of Westphalia became the foundation of independence ; but to the smaller it was the ultimate cause of weakness and degradation, and led to the subjugation of most of the imperial towns, once the chief seats of German wealth, prosperity, and commerce.