The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1866 |
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... soon found that they had common interests and common enemies . Both were alike aggrieved by the tyranny of a bad king . were alike indignant at the favour shown by the court to the natives of Poitou and Aquitaine . The greatgrandsons of ...
... soon found that they had common interests and common enemies . Both were alike aggrieved by the tyranny of a bad king . were alike indignant at the favour shown by the court to the natives of Poitou and Aquitaine . The greatgrandsons of ...
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... soon made manifest , by signs not to be mistaken , that a people inferior to none ex- isting in the world had been formed by the mixture of three branches of the great Teutonic family with each other , and with the aboriginal Britons ...
... soon made manifest , by signs not to be mistaken , that a people inferior to none ex- isting in the world had been formed by the mixture of three branches of the great Teutonic family with each other , and with the aboriginal Britons ...
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... soon brought the fiercest and proudest king to reason , the check on tyranny of physical force . It is difficult for an Englishman of the in the nineteenth century to imagine to himself the facility and rapidity with which , four ...
... soon brought the fiercest and proudest king to reason , the check on tyranny of physical force . It is difficult for an Englishman of the in the nineteenth century to imagine to himself the facility and rapidity with which , four ...
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... soon as the actual conflict was over . The ca- lamities of civil war were confined to the slaughter on the field of battle , and to a few subsequent executions and confiscations . In a week the peasant was driving his team and the ...
... soon as the actual conflict was over . The ca- lamities of civil war were confined to the slaughter on the field of battle , and to a few subsequent executions and confiscations . In a week the peasant was driving his team and the ...
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... soon appears that peasants and burghers , however brave , are unable to stand their ground against veteran soldiers , whose whole life is a preparation for the day of battle , whose nerves have been braced by long familiarity with ...
... soon appears that peasants and burghers , however brave , are unable to stand their ground against veteran soldiers , whose whole life is a preparation for the day of battle , whose nerves have been braced by long familiarity with ...
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