The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1866 |
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... hundred years followed , during Conquests which the chief object of the English was to establish , by Continent . force of arms , a great empire on the Continent . The claim of Edward to the inheritance occupied by the House of Va- lois ...
... hundred years followed , during Conquests which the chief object of the English was to establish , by Continent . force of arms , a great empire on the Continent . The claim of Edward to the inheritance occupied by the House of Va- lois ...
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... hundred years ago , acquired the authority of fundamental rules . On the other hand , no candid Whig will affirm that they were , till a later period , cleared from all ambiguity , or followed out to all their consequences . A ...
... hundred years ago , acquired the authority of fundamental rules . On the other hand , no candid Whig will affirm that they were , till a later period , cleared from all ambiguity , or followed out to all their consequences . A ...
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... hundred years ago , this check was applied . The people have long unlearned the use of arms . The art of war has been carried to a perfection unknown to former ages ; and the knowledge of that art is confined to a particular class . A ...
... hundred years ago , this check was applied . The people have long unlearned the use of arms . The art of war has been carried to a perfection unknown to former ages ; and the knowledge of that art is confined to a particular class . A ...
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... hundred and sixty years have now elapsed since the English people have by force subverted a govern- ment . During the hundred and sixty years which preceded the union of the Roses , nine Kings reigned in England . Six of these nine ...
... hundred and sixty years have now elapsed since the English people have by force subverted a govern- ment . During the hundred and sixty years which preceded the union of the Roses , nine Kings reigned in England . Six of these nine ...
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... hundred could have spelled his way through a psalm . Books were few and costly . The art of printing was unknown . Copies of the Bible , inferior in beauty and clearness to those which every cottager may now command , sold for prices ...
... hundred could have spelled his way through a psalm . Books were few and costly . The art of printing was unknown . Copies of the Bible , inferior in beauty and clearness to those which every cottager may now command , sold for prices ...
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