Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... France , is said to have been equivalent to 25007. sterling . Sir James had perhaps for a moment forgotten , his editor had certainly never heard , -that a great depreciation of the French coin took place after 1688. When Sunderland was ...
... France , is said to have been equivalent to 25007. sterling . Sir James had perhaps for a moment forgotten , his editor had certainly never heard , -that a great depreciation of the French coin took place after 1688. When Sunderland was ...
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... France and in the depths of the forests of Ohio . We shall be pardoned , we hope , if we call the atten- tion of our readers to the causes and to the consequences of that great event . race , - is so . We said that the history of ...
... France and in the depths of the forests of Ohio . We shall be pardoned , we hope , if we call the atten- tion of our readers to the causes and to the consequences of that great event . race , - is so . We said that the history of ...
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... France of Louis the Sixteenth had passed away as completely as one of the Preadamite worlds . Its fossil remains might now and then excite curi- osity . But it was as impossible to put life into the old institutions as to animate the ...
... France of Louis the Sixteenth had passed away as completely as one of the Preadamite worlds . Its fossil remains might now and then excite curi- osity . But it was as impossible to put life into the old institutions as to animate the ...
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... France , had been far less violently and completely subverted . The old institu- tions had been spared , or imperfectly eradicated . The laws had undergone little alteration . The tenures of the soil were still to be learned from ...
... France , had been far less violently and completely subverted . The old institu- tions had been spared , or imperfectly eradicated . The laws had undergone little alteration . The tenures of the soil were still to be learned from ...
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... France , against a country which seemed to be the last asylum of civil and religious liberty . They saw Ireland discontented , and Scot- land in rebellion . They saw , meantime , Whitehall swarm- ing with sharpers and courtesans . They ...
... France , against a country which seemed to be the last asylum of civil and religious liberty . They saw Ireland discontented , and Scot- land in rebellion . They saw , meantime , Whitehall swarm- ing with sharpers and courtesans . They ...
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