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... method of ascertaining the guilt or innocence of an accused person by a supposed appeal to the judgment of Heaven . After certain religious rites , the accused plunged his arm into boiling water , or carried a hot iron in his hand for ...
... method of ascertaining the guilt or innocence of an accused person by a supposed appeal to the judgment of Heaven . After certain religious rites , the accused plunged his arm into boiling water , or carried a hot iron in his hand for ...
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... method of warfare differed from the English and Danish , which it displaced . The Norman and French gentlemen fought on horseback armed with lance and sword , and would have thought it beneath their dignity to go into battle on foot ...
... method of warfare differed from the English and Danish , which it displaced . The Norman and French gentlemen fought on horseback armed with lance and sword , and would have thought it beneath their dignity to go into battle on foot ...
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... method of crush- ing the North - country into obedience . At the head of his troops he marched through the length and breadth of the land between York and Durham , and deliberately made it a desert . For nine years the ground remained ...
... method of crush- ing the North - country into obedience . At the head of his troops he marched through the length and breadth of the land between York and Durham , and deliberately made it a desert . For nine years the ground remained ...
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... methods of raising money , until a petty war with France so increased his difficulties that he had to summon a third Parliament . This , by grant- ing him five subsidies , obtained his assent to their Petition of Right , by which the ...
... methods of raising money , until a petty war with France so increased his difficulties that he had to summon a third Parliament . This , by grant- ing him five subsidies , obtained his assent to their Petition of Right , by which the ...
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... method of life , kept fast days , meditated and prayed , and visited the prisoners and the sick . Of this band were John Wesley , his brother Charles , afterwards noted as a writer of hymns , and Whitefield , who , after he had taken ...
... method of life , kept fast days , meditated and prayed , and visited the prisoners and the sick . Of this band were John Wesley , his brother Charles , afterwards noted as a writer of hymns , and Whitefield , who , after he had taken ...
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