An abridgment of The history of England, to the death of George ii1777 |
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... last leave of the island , after being mafters of it for near four hundred years , and now left the natives to the choice of their own government and kings . They gave them the best in- ftructions the calamitous times would permit , for ...
... last leave of the island , after being mafters of it for near four hundred years , and now left the natives to the choice of their own government and kings . They gave them the best in- ftructions the calamitous times would permit , for ...
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... last kingdom which they obtained was that of Northumberland , one of the moft power- ful and extenfive of them all . This was formed from the union of two fmaller Saxon kingdoms , the one called Bernicia , containing the prefent county ...
... last kingdom which they obtained was that of Northumberland , one of the moft power- ful and extenfive of them all . This was formed from the union of two fmaller Saxon kingdoms , the one called Bernicia , containing the prefent county ...
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... last reign . This account the haughty monk refused to give in ; wherefore , he was deprived of all the ecclefiaftical and civil emoluments of which he had been in poffeffion , and banished the kingdom . His exile only ferved to encrease ...
... last reign . This account the haughty monk refused to give in ; wherefore , he was deprived of all the ecclefiaftical and civil emoluments of which he had been in poffeffion , and banished the kingdom . His exile only ferved to encrease ...
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... last reign , for a moderate fum , he fet out for the Holy Land , whither he was impelled by repeated meffages from the king of France , who was ready to embark in the fame enterprize . The first place of rendezvous for the two armies of ...
... last reign , for a moderate fum , he fet out for the Holy Land , whither he was impelled by repeated meffages from the king of France , who was ready to embark in the fame enterprize . The first place of rendezvous for the two armies of ...
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... last he found that he had not above fix thousand men , who followed his ftandard . Thus , not knowing whom to trust to , or where to turn , he faw no other hopes of fafety , but to throw himself upon the generofity of his enemy , and to ...
... last he found that he had not above fix thousand men , who followed his ftandard . Thus , not knowing whom to trust to , or where to turn , he faw no other hopes of fafety , but to throw himself upon the generofity of his enemy , and to ...
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