The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages, Том 11Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton J.B. Millet, 1900 |
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... : John Bright on the American Civil War · 175-179 183 187-192 · 194-199 · 203-206 212-215 LORD MACAULAY : The University of Glasgow DANIEL O'CONNELL : PAOLO SARPI : The Prohibition of Books by the Church . JOHN CALVIN.
... : John Bright on the American Civil War · 175-179 183 187-192 · 194-199 · 203-206 212-215 LORD MACAULAY : The University of Glasgow DANIEL O'CONNELL : PAOLO SARPI : The Prohibition of Books by the Church . JOHN CALVIN.
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... American history . At the next annual elec- tion of Governor , Winthrop was chosen Governor . The peo- ple of Boston , however , were still unshaken in their devotion to Vane , and elected him and some of his warmest supporters to ...
... American history . At the next annual elec- tion of Governor , Winthrop was chosen Governor . The peo- ple of Boston , however , were still unshaken in their devotion to Vane , and elected him and some of his warmest supporters to ...
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... America . The Puritans fled to Massachusetts to escape the intolerance of James I. , and his son's arbitrary zeal . The Catholics founded an asylum from English persecution in Maryland ; and the Quakers sought civil and religious ...
... America . The Puritans fled to Massachusetts to escape the intolerance of James I. , and his son's arbitrary zeal . The Catholics founded an asylum from English persecution in Maryland ; and the Quakers sought civil and religious ...
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... American colonies soon became considerable . At the close of the century about five hundred vessels were employed in this trade and with the West Indies . Of these , however , some were engaged in the slave trade . A Board of Trade was ...
... American colonies soon became considerable . At the close of the century about five hundred vessels were employed in this trade and with the West Indies . Of these , however , some were engaged in the slave trade . A Board of Trade was ...
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... More than thirty English and Scotch noblemen and gentlemen suffered death . The estates of many were confiscated and more than a thousand were banished to America . On his return 84 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS .
... More than thirty English and Scotch noblemen and gentlemen suffered death . The estates of many were confiscated and more than a thousand were banished to America . On his return 84 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS .
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Стр. 177 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Стр. 193 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
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Стр. 98 - Glenullin ! whose bride shall await, Like a love-lighted watch-fire, all night at the gate. A steed comes at morning: no rider is there; But its bridle is red with the sign of despair.
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Стр. 77 - Dundee he is mounted, he rides up the street, The bells are rung backward, the drums they are beat ; But the Provost, douce man, said, ' Just e'en let him be, The Gude Town is weel quit of that Deil of Dundee.
Стр. 70 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Стр. 192 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.