Popular History of England, Volume 5Bradbury, Evans, 1859 - Great Britain |
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... chief counties of the West at the beginning of the eighteenth century contained 202,167 houses , and therefore above a million ten thousand inhabitants . At the same period , Cheshire , Lancashire , Yorkshire , Durham , and Northumber ...
... chief counties of the West at the beginning of the eighteenth century contained 202,167 houses , and therefore above a million ten thousand inhabitants . At the same period , Cheshire , Lancashire , Yorkshire , Durham , and Northumber ...
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... chief workers of the tin - mines . In the middle of the eighteenth century the produce of these mines was about sixteen hundred tons ; and no great increase was observable for another half century . That quantity is about a seventh of ...
... chief workers of the tin - mines . In the middle of the eighteenth century the produce of these mines was about sixteen hundred tons ; and no great increase was observable for another half century . That quantity is about a seventh of ...
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... chief streets , within which it was only safe to walk . The carmen in the principal road were fighting with the hackney coach drivers . The chairmen drove the foot - passengers off the railed - in way ; and the foot- passengers ...
... chief streets , within which it was only safe to walk . The carmen in the principal road were fighting with the hackney coach drivers . The chairmen drove the foot - passengers off the railed - in way ; and the foot- passengers ...
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... chief evil is to destroy good fellowship . It takes the practical form of one continued struggle for political supremacy . The dominion of King without * Macaulay , vol . i . chap . iii . 56 THE NOBILITY . [ 1689-1714 . Parliament he ...
... chief evil is to destroy good fellowship . It takes the practical form of one continued struggle for political supremacy . The dominion of King without * Macaulay , vol . i . chap . iii . 56 THE NOBILITY . [ 1689-1714 . Parliament he ...
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... chief evils of absenteeship are moral evils ; that the landlord who is a mere receiver of rents , without taking thought for the general welfare of the humbler classes upon his estates , does not do his duty in that state of life to ...
... chief evils of absenteeship are moral evils ; that the landlord who is a mere receiver of rents , without taking thought for the general welfare of the humbler classes upon his estates , does not do his duty in that state of life to ...
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Page 256 - That in case the Crown and imperial dignity of this Realm shall hereafter come to any person, not being a native of this Kingdom of England, this nation be not obliged to engage in any war for the defence of any dominions or territories which do not belong to the Crown of England, without the consent of Parliament...
Page 177 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 423 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 75 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Page 444 - I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen who settled first at Hull.
Page 76 - ... his peers and according to the known and established laws of this realm, yet nevertheless it being requisite for retaining such forces as are...
Page 29 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 437 - He was not without hopes that, by manifesting the dulness of those who had only malice to recommend them, either the booksellers would not find their account in employing them, or the men themselves, when discovered, want courage to proceed in so unlawful an occupation. This it was that gave birth to the 'Dunciad...
Page 436 - As when a skilful cook has trussed a brace of woodcocks, he with iron skewer pierces the tender sides of both, their legs and wings close pinioned to the ribs ; so was this pair of friends transfixed, till down they fell, joined in their lives, joined in their deaths ; so closely joined that Charon would mistake them both for one, and waft them over Styx for half his tire. Farewell, beloved, loving pair ; few equals have you left behind : and happy and immortal shall you be, if all my wit and eloquence...
Page 73 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...