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... English people as should escape the sword . This was humorously described by Hogarth : " The zealous priests , with righteous hopes , 46 • Prepare their axes , wheels , and ropes , " To bend the stiff - neck'd sinner : " But should they ...
... English people as should escape the sword . This was humorously described by Hogarth : " The zealous priests , with righteous hopes , 46 • Prepare their axes , wheels , and ropes , " To bend the stiff - neck'd sinner : " But should they ...
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... English fleet , commanded by Admiral Lord Howard and Sir Fran- cis Drake ; and the Spanish ships , to the amount of nearly one hundred sail , were burnt , sunk , or taken : the remnant were dispersed and lost in a tempest ; and a few of ...
... English fleet , commanded by Admiral Lord Howard and Sir Fran- cis Drake ; and the Spanish ships , to the amount of nearly one hundred sail , were burnt , sunk , or taken : the remnant were dispersed and lost in a tempest ; and a few of ...
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... independent .... more powerful than she had ever been .... and was nearly able to have conquered Britain , then governed by Henry VI . the feeblest and most miserable of all the English mon archs 30 AN HISTORICAL COMPEND .
... independent .... more powerful than she had ever been .... and was nearly able to have conquered Britain , then governed by Henry VI . the feeblest and most miserable of all the English mon archs 30 AN HISTORICAL COMPEND .
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... English mon archs . In virtue of that conquest , the kings of England have ever since pompously styled themselves kings of Great - Britain , France , and Ireland . Francis I. though one of the most accomplished princes of his time ...
... English mon archs . In virtue of that conquest , the kings of England have ever since pompously styled themselves kings of Great - Britain , France , and Ireland . Francis I. though one of the most accomplished princes of his time ...
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... English ; since which time they have had no footing in France . He was killed at a tourna- ment by Count Montgomery , A. D. 1559 . The history of France , from this period till the reign of Lewis XIV . commonly called the Augustan . age ...
... English ; since which time they have had no footing in France . He was killed at a tourna- ment by Count Montgomery , A. D. 1559 . The history of France , from this period till the reign of Lewis XIV . commonly called the Augustan . age ...
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