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Page 12
... hundred times pawned - and never redeemed . Here , indeed , the Long Parliament stands on still stronger ground than the Convention of 1688 No action of James can be compared for wickedness and impudence to the conduct of Charles with ...
... hundred times pawned - and never redeemed . Here , indeed , the Long Parliament stands on still stronger ground than the Convention of 1688 No action of James can be compared for wickedness and impudence to the conduct of Charles with ...
Page 22
... hundred studied arithmetic ; six hundred received a learned education . The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts was proportioned to that of the public prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the ...
... hundred studied arithmetic ; six hundred received a learned education . The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts was proportioned to that of the public prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the ...
Page 25
... hundred thousand people . But there can be no doubt that he was a much less depraved man than Wild . The deed for which Mrs. Brownrigg was hanged sinks into nothing , when compared with the conduct of the Roman who treated the public to ...
... hundred thousand people . But there can be no doubt that he was a much less depraved man than Wild . The deed for which Mrs. Brownrigg was hanged sinks into nothing , when compared with the conduct of the Roman who treated the public to ...
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... hundred years his bones attained , when the foreign yoke shall be bro- lay undistinguished . At length , an English | ken , when a second Proccita shall avenge the nobleman paid the last honours to the greatest wrongs of Naples , when a ...
... hundred years his bones attained , when the foreign yoke shall be bro- lay undistinguished . At length , an English | ken , when a second Proccita shall avenge the nobleman paid the last honours to the greatest wrongs of Naples , when a ...
Page 63
... hundred years . Instead of illus- rature has gained or lost during the last two - trating the events which they narrated by the and - twenty centuries . The best nistorians of later times have been seduced from truth , not by their ...
... hundred years . Instead of illus- rature has gained or lost during the last two - trating the events which they narrated by the and - twenty centuries . The best nistorians of later times have been seduced from truth , not by their ...
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