The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century: Its Progress and Expansion at Home and Abroad, Comprising a Description and History of the British Colonies and Dependencies, Tom 1Blackie & son, limited, 1897 - 30 |
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... hands as the dwellers in any of the British colonies mainly composed of British emi- grants and their children . Through her presence in India Britain has become a great Oriental power , and contiguity with the Asiatic possessions of ...
... hands as the dwellers in any of the British colonies mainly composed of British emi- grants and their children . Through her presence in India Britain has become a great Oriental power , and contiguity with the Asiatic possessions of ...
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... hands the power of the purse . When Henry the Eighth , without the consent of Parliament , required of his subjects a contribution amounting to one - sixth of their goods , a general outcry , with the appearance of thousands of men in ...
... hands the power of the purse . When Henry the Eighth , without the consent of Parliament , required of his subjects a contribution amounting to one - sixth of their goods , a general outcry , with the appearance of thousands of men in ...
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... hand , those who , from the first , dissented from the Church on the question of prelacy , and especially those who strictly followed the theology of Calvin , formed the party known , under Elizabeth , as Puritans . The persecution ...
... hand , those who , from the first , dissented from the Church on the question of prelacy , and especially those who strictly followed the theology of Calvin , formed the party known , under Elizabeth , as Puritans . The persecution ...
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... hands , but her connection with a wealthier and stronger nation caused her , though in name an independent kingdom , to receive , for more than a century , much of the treatment of a subject province . As for Ireland , she was openly ...
... hands , but her connection with a wealthier and stronger nation caused her , though in name an independent kingdom , to receive , for more than a century , much of the treatment of a subject province . As for Ireland , she was openly ...
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... hand , the page containing the famous Protestation , which declared the " liberties , franchises , privi- leges , and jurisdictions of parliament " to be " the ancient and un- doubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of ...
... hand , the page containing the famous Protestation , which declared the " liberties , franchises , privi- leges , and jurisdictions of parliament " to be " the ancient and un- doubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of ...
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