Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolution, Том 1J. Owen, 1843 |
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... King , Lords , and Commons , on the whole better adapted to the growth and durability of a great pow- er , and to the preservation of the people's liberties , than any that has yet been tried . But he is not an enemy to republics when ...
... King , Lords , and Commons , on the whole better adapted to the growth and durability of a great pow- er , and to the preservation of the people's liberties , than any that has yet been tried . But he is not an enemy to republics when ...
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... king's journey to Scotland in 6141 . Fourth interval , from that journey to the civil war . --- Prynne's Speech in Cobbett , Walker's History of Independents to be looked at , and the King's Letters in Royston's edition of his works ...
... king's journey to Scotland in 6141 . Fourth interval , from that journey to the civil war . --- Prynne's Speech in Cobbett , Walker's History of Independents to be looked at , and the King's Letters in Royston's edition of his works ...
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... King's Declaration or Appeal to the People ) , - Sir W. Jones's Reply given in Cobbett . - CHARLES THE SECOND . MEMOIRS of C. de Grammont , - Dryden's Political Poems , - Absalom and Achitophel , & c . , - Hudibras , Grey's Notes ...
... King's Declaration or Appeal to the People ) , - Sir W. Jones's Reply given in Cobbett . - CHARLES THE SECOND . MEMOIRS of C. de Grammont , - Dryden's Political Poems , - Absalom and Achitophel , & c . , - Hudibras , Grey's Notes ...
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... KING OF PRUSSIA . THIEBAULT , Edinburgh Review of that work , - Tower's Life of King of Prussia . These will be sufficient for the general reader . Mirabeau on the Prussian Monarchy ; particularly the first vol . and last ; read and ...
... KING OF PRUSSIA . THIEBAULT , Edinburgh Review of that work , - Tower's Life of King of Prussia . These will be sufficient for the general reader . Mirabeau on the Prussian Monarchy ; particularly the first vol . and last ; read and ...
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... king , as the greatest of those lords . In England the situation of things was not exactly the same as in the rest of Europe , from the greater influence of the crown but in general it may be said , that whatever shook and scattered the ...
... king , as the greatest of those lords . In England the situation of things was not exactly the same as in the rest of Europe , from the greater influence of the crown but in general it may be said , that whatever shook and scattered the ...
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