Popular History of England, Volume 5Bradbury, Evans, 1859 - Great Britain |
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... subject glass to an excise . The duties were partially repealed , and they were wholly removed before the end of the seventeenth century . By a Statute of 1698 , they are declared to be very vexatious and troublesome , and of small ...
... subject glass to an excise . The duties were partially repealed , and they were wholly removed before the end of the seventeenth century . By a Statute of 1698 , they are declared to be very vexatious and troublesome , and of small ...
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... subject of legislation in 1697 , —has steadily gone forward . The time may arrive when the Great Level of the Fens may become as wholly firm land , as the remains of ancient roads and trees below the surface show it once to have been ...
... subject of legislation in 1697 , —has steadily gone forward . The time may arrive when the Great Level of the Fens may become as wholly firm land , as the remains of ancient roads and trees below the surface show it once to have been ...
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... subject to the Customs ' duties . The shops of London then retailed the new luxuries , but at a price which must have forbidden their general use . In 1710 , Bohea is advertised at twelve , sixteen , twenty , * Chamberlayne's " Present ...
... subject to the Customs ' duties . The shops of London then retailed the new luxuries , but at a price which must have forbidden their general use . In 1710 , Bohea is advertised at twelve , sixteen , twenty , * Chamberlayne's " Present ...
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... subjects may be traders , and employ their capital in a joint - stock . " The Hudson's Bay Company was chartered in 1670 , for the purpose of opening a trade for furs and minerals . For nearly two centuries the trade in furs , conducted ...
... subjects may be traders , and employ their capital in a joint - stock . " The Hudson's Bay Company was chartered in 1670 , for the purpose of opening a trade for furs and minerals . For nearly two centuries the trade in furs , conducted ...
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... subjects , which are the peculiar province of the essayist . It was a city , cleaner probably , and with more public conveniences than any other capital of Europe ; but in what we should now deem a condi- tion most unfavourable to ...
... subjects , which are the peculiar province of the essayist . It was a city , cleaner probably , and with more public conveniences than any other capital of Europe ; but in what we should now deem a condi- tion most unfavourable 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...