Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nation to the Close of the American Revolution, Volume 1H. G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... Parliamentary Debates in Cobbett - History of Long Parliament by May - Rushworth's Collections - Nalson's Ditto - Harris's Lives of James I. and Charles I. , Cromwell , and Charles II . - Burnet and Laing's History of Scotland - Memoirs ...
... Parliamentary Debates in Cobbett - History of Long Parliament by May - Rushworth's Collections - Nalson's Ditto - Harris's Lives of James I. and Charles I. , Cromwell , and Charles II . - Burnet and Laing's History of Scotland - Memoirs ...
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... Parliament -Gumble's Life of Monk - Trial of the Regicides , short , and by all means to be read . CHARLES II . HARRIS's Lives ( all these Lives by Harris , full of information and historical research ) -Neal's History of the Puritans ...
... Parliament -Gumble's Life of Monk - Trial of the Regicides , short , and by all means to be read . CHARLES II . HARRIS's Lives ( all these Lives by Harris , full of information and historical research ) -Neal's History of the Puritans ...
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... Parliamentary History and Somerville's Account of the Union , will be the best to read , with the first hundred pages of the third volume of Millar on the English Constitution . GEORGE I. AND II . SIR R. WALPOLE . COXE's Life of Sir ...
... Parliamentary History and Somerville's Account of the Union , will be the best to read , with the first hundred pages of the third volume of Millar on the English Constitution . GEORGE I. AND II . SIR R. WALPOLE . COXE's Life of Sir ...
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... parliament or men of any ordinary nature ; and Walpole himself might have been thought by this royal trifler , as unfit , as the historian was thought by Walpole , to penetrate into the secrets of the world . The short state of the ...
... parliament or men of any ordinary nature ; and Walpole himself might have been thought by this royal trifler , as unfit , as the historian was thought by Walpole , to penetrate into the secrets of the world . The short state of the ...
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... parliaments are a proper subject of inquiry . Philip proposed to make the parliaments or 106 [ LECT . IV . MODERN HISTORY .
... parliaments are a proper subject of inquiry . Philip proposed to make the parliaments or 106 [ LECT . IV . MODERN HISTORY .
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