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... hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants . zens of Madrid have more than once besieged In the various schools about ten thousand their sovereign in his own palace , and extorted children were taught to read ; twelve hundred from him the ...
... hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants . zens of Madrid have more than once besieged In the various schools about ten thousand their sovereign in his own palace , and extorted children were taught to read ; twelve hundred from him the ...
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... 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 . Instead of illus The best nistorians of later times have been seduced from truth , not by their imagination , but by their reason . They far excel their pre- decessors in the art of deducing general prin- ciples from ...
... hundred years . Instead of illus The best nistorians of later times have been seduced from truth , not by their imagination , but by their reason . They far excel their pre- decessors in the art of deducing general prin- ciples from ...
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... hundred years , of the eighteenth century . Every free consti- tution , save one , had gone down . That of England had weathered the danger ; and was riding in full security . In Denmark and Sweden , the kings had availed themselves of ...
... hundred years , of the eighteenth century . Every free consti- tution , save one , had gone down . That of England had weathered the danger ; and was riding in full security . In Denmark and Sweden , the kings had availed themselves of ...
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... hundred persons refused to take the oath of allegiance to a government founded on resistance ! In the preceding generation , both the Episcopal and the Presbyterian clergy , rather than con- cede points of conscience not more important ...
... hundred persons refused to take the oath of allegiance to a government founded on resistance ! In the preceding generation , both the Episcopal and the Presbyterian clergy , rather than con- cede points of conscience not more important ...
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