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Lord Ashley, soon after known by the name of earl of Shaftesbury,
was one of the most remarkable characters of the age, and the chief
spring of ... appeared by petition before the house of
lords. The lords entered into their reasons, and began to make
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employed a stratagem against them, which is said to have
contributed to the victory: ...
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... it was to proclaim their confidence in the goodness of their cause; to give to the world a
splendid proof of the sovereignty of the people and of the responsibility of kings.[1][a] When the motion ... protection from the sword of the conqueror, but not from the vengeance of the law.
All five were condemned[a] to lose their heads; but the rigour...
... became offenders, were subjected only
to exclusion from the meetings for discipline, and from the privilege of contributing to
the pecuniary occasions of the Society; but, by the resolution of the ... arbitrators, mutually chosen, awarded them.
B: Previously to the year 1787, several of the states had made the terms of
manumission more easy.
Having g...
... vessel.
"They are the ships of the King of France," replied the captain. "They have oftentime plundered your coasts.
They lately burned the town of Southampton and took your good ship the ... and the ornament which the knights of the Garter wear is called the George.
THE KING MADE THE BLACK PRINCE A KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER.
CHAPTE...
... water into it. Heap together into it the pieces thereof.' And then: &apos ;The seething of it is boiling
hot; and the bones thereof are thoroughly sodden in the midst thereof.' And further: ... conveyed to the mind
by the senses that participation of the Primacy, in which consisted all the authority which he exercised over
other bishops. The violence of t...
... voices resounded in
various parts of the castle; numbers had thronged to the tower, with their own eyes to mark the approach of
the enemy, and to report all they had seen to their companions below, ... sharper clang, the heavy fall of man and
horse, the creaking of the engines, the wild shrieks of the victims within the walls mangled by the stones, or...
... the ire of two of the most civilised of the Great
Powers, it was not to be expected that he should escape the blacking-roller of the Russian censor of the press.
The touchiness of that official ... Draughtsmen had to be
familiar with the faces of the leading men of the day even as Leech was, by "getting them" into their
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