Great events in England's history, by the author of 'Our country's story'.John Marshall, 1873 - Всего страниц: 223 |
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... Mutiny Act , still passed annually , by which parliament year by year sanctions the maintenance of a standing army . The year 1720 witnessed the failure of that mixture of " knavery and madness , " the South Sea scheme . This was a plan ...
... Mutiny Act , still passed annually , by which parliament year by year sanctions the maintenance of a standing army . The year 1720 witnessed the failure of that mixture of " knavery and madness , " the South Sea scheme . This was a plan ...
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Jane Budge. OUR INDIAN EMPIRE . PART II . The Mutiny . THE year which completed the centenary of the victory of Plassy opened , and with it came the sepoy mutiny . The first actual outbreak was at Berhampore , just at the end of February ...
Jane Budge. OUR INDIAN EMPIRE . PART II . The Mutiny . THE year which completed the centenary of the victory of Plassy opened , and with it came the sepoy mutiny . The first actual outbreak was at Berhampore , just at the end of February ...
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... mutiny was spread- ing far and wide , that our empire in India was at stake , and that the handful of Englishmen there were committed to a life and death struggle with millions of natives . In the history of that time there is no sadder ...
... mutiny was spread- ing far and wide , that our empire in India was at stake , and that the handful of Englishmen there were committed to a life and death struggle with millions of natives . In the history of that time there is no sadder ...
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... mutiny . Give in detail an account of what happened at Cawnpore . Who was Nana Sahib , and for what was he notorious ? Describe the relief of Lucknow . THE REFORM BILL . We have seen that the modern OUR INDIAN EMPIRE . 207.
... mutiny . Give in detail an account of what happened at Cawnpore . Who was Nana Sahib , and for what was he notorious ? Describe the relief of Lucknow . THE REFORM BILL . We have seen that the modern OUR INDIAN EMPIRE . 207.
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... Mutiny of 1857 , though unhappily we did not hear the last of war with China until 1860. The next year was marked by a sad national loss , which made it the darkest in our Queen's life , for it deprived her of her husband , and left ...
... Mutiny of 1857 , though unhappily we did not hear the last of war with China until 1860. The next year was marked by a sad national loss , which made it the darkest in our Queen's life , for it deprived her of her husband , and left ...
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Стр. 126 - The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed ; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Стр. 118 - Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects...
Стр. 38 - In the name of God, St. Michael and St. George, I make thee knight.' And he sometimes added,
Стр. 144 - King would yield and consent to what they desire ; so that my conscience is only concerned in honour and gratitude to follow my master. I have eaten his bread and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him ; and choose rather to lose my Life (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend those things, which are against my conscience to preserve and defend.
Стр. 119 - There was never anything pleased me better than the seeing the enemy flying with a southerly wind to the northwards. God grant you have a good eye to the Duke of Parma; for with the grace of God, if we live, I doubt it not but ere it be long so to handle the matter with the Duke of Sidonia as he shall wish himself at St. Mary Port among his orange trees.
Стр. 118 - I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honor and my blood, even in the dust.
Стр. 20 - MORTE D'ARTHUR. So all day long the noise of battle rolled Among the mountains by the winter sea ; Until King Arthur's table, man by man, Had fallen in Lyonness about their Lord, King Arthur : then, because his wound was deep, The bold Sir Bedivere uplifted him, Sir Bedivere, the last of all his knights, And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark...
Стр. 128 - We will not say as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England, Farewell, Babylon! Farewell, Rome ! but we will say, Farewell, dear England ! Farewell the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there...
Стр. 125 - And though you have had and may have many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have any that will be more careful and loving.
Стр. 59 - Leicester in the summons for a parliament at this time directed " the sheriffs to elect and return two knights for each county, two citizens for each city, and two burgesses for each borough in the county...