The 19th Century: A HistoryHarper, 1880 - 83 páginas |
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... Turks ... 58 The Turks seize Constantinople .. 58 Turkish aggression arrested . 58 The heritage which the Turks possessed .. 59 Character of the Turk ... ... 59 The government of the Turk . 60 Desolation produced by the Turks .. 60 ...
... Turks ... 58 The Turks seize Constantinople .. 58 Turkish aggression arrested . 58 The heritage which the Turks possessed .. 59 Character of the Turk ... ... 59 The government of the Turk . 60 Desolation produced by the Turks .. 60 ...
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... Turkish government was fain to yield . FEBRUARY , 1853 . After a year of arduous negotiation , there were delivered to the Latin monks the keys which symbolized their victory over the Greeks . The silver star was borne in triumphal ...
... Turkish government was fain to yield . FEBRUARY , 1853 . After a year of arduous negotiation , there were delivered to the Latin monks the keys which symbolized their victory over the Greeks . The silver star was borne in triumphal ...
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... Turkish drifted rapidly into war . ministers to adopt . His voice was ever raised for resistance to the demands of Russia . Unintentionally and imperceptibly England became committed by the meek ac- ceptance with which the Turks ...
... Turkish drifted rapidly into war . ministers to adopt . His voice was ever raised for resistance to the demands of Russia . Unintentionally and imperceptibly England became committed by the meek ac- ceptance with which the Turks ...
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... Turks , who has- tened to find safety in flight . A large body of Russian horsemen , moving on in the di- rection of Balaklava , came in view of the 93d Highlanders , standing in line , two men deep . Their commander , Sir Colin Camp ...
... Turks , who has- tened to find safety in flight . A large body of Russian horsemen , moving on in the di- rection of Balaklava , came in view of the 93d Highlanders , standing in line , two men deep . Their commander , Sir Colin Camp ...
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... Turks but Prussia was in danger , and had per- efforts . Very soon it could be seen that Se- the privilege of oppressing and plundering suaded us to come to her rescue . bastopol was a mass of ruins . But that had no tendency to weaken ...
... Turks but Prussia was in danger , and had per- efforts . Very soon it could be seen that Se- the privilege of oppressing and plundering suaded us to come to her rescue . bastopol was a mass of ruins . But that had no tendency to weaken ...
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able allies American annually arms army Austria battle became Britain British ceased century Chartist Christian church close Cloth command Congress of Vienna corn law cotton crown defeat defence desire despotism emperor empire endured enemy England English enormous ernment Europe European evils fifty force foreign forty France French gained German half hundred increased India inflicted influence Italian Italy king labor land liberal liberty Lord Lord Palmerston Louis Louis Napoleon Louis Philippe maintained manufactures ment military million sterling minister monarch Naples Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte nearly once overthrow Paris Parliament passed peace persons political poor pope population possession Prince prisoners progress reform regard reign resistance restoration revolution Rome Russia Sardinia scarcely ships soldiers sought Spain strength success suffered supply taxes territory thirty thousand throne tion trade troops Turkey Turkish Turks twenty universal suffrage vast victory vote yielded
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Página 15 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Página 24 - But it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Página 15 - If a man injured Westminster Bridge, he was hanged. If he appeared disguised on a public road, he was hanged. If he cut down young trees; if he shot at rabbits; if he stole property valued at five shillings ; if he stole anything at all from a bleachfield ; if he wrote a threatening letter to extort money; if he returned prematurely from transportation, — for any of these offences he was immediately hanged.
Página 37 - ... had been reduced to yarn for thousands of years, the same rude contrivance used in ancient Mycenae and Troy by Homer's heroines. There are men alive to-day, whose mothers, like Solomon's virtuous woman, laid their hands to the spindle and distaff, and knew no other way. William Fairbairn, an eminent mechanic, states that "in the beginning of the century the human hand performed all the work that was done, and performed it badly.