Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 39W. Blackwood & Sons, 1836 |
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... villages were scenes of the similar execution of the royal mandates . But several of the pro- vincial governors refused , with a due sense of honour and humanity , to stain themselves with innocent blood ; some under the pretext that ...
... villages were scenes of the similar execution of the royal mandates . But several of the pro- vincial governors refused , with a due sense of honour and humanity , to stain themselves with innocent blood ; some under the pretext that ...
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... villages and open country , cal- culate it at 70,000 , or even 100,000 . † * De Thou , liv . 52 . Large as the last number is , it may not be too large , when we remember that the attack on the Reformed was spread over almost the whole ...
... villages and open country , cal- culate it at 70,000 , or even 100,000 . † * De Thou , liv . 52 . Large as the last number is , it may not be too large , when we remember that the attack on the Reformed was spread over almost the whole ...
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... village , which was his property , and which he naturally dreaded to see the scene either of plunder or a skir- mish with some of the roving troops of the time . They willingly granted his request of not stopping in the village , as ...
... village , which was his property , and which he naturally dreaded to see the scene either of plunder or a skir- mish with some of the roving troops of the time . They willingly granted his request of not stopping in the village , as ...
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... villages , towns , cities , joined in this covenant of extermination . All the leading names of the Romanists were soon found in its registers , until at last the King , in the full consciousness that he was signing a conspiracy against ...
... villages , towns , cities , joined in this covenant of extermination . All the leading names of the Romanists were soon found in its registers , until at last the King , in the full consciousness that he was signing a conspiracy against ...
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... village on the Sussex coast . All this negotiation was the fruit of scarcely five minutes , Bobby standing with his finger on the street - door latch . Barney walk- ed " like man new made " to the spot where the boy , with a candle ...
... village on the Sussex coast . All this negotiation was the fruit of scarcely five minutes , Bobby standing with his finger on the street - door latch . Barney walk- ed " like man new made " to the spot where the boy , with a candle ...
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Página 107 - The time will therefore come when one hundred and fifty millions of men will be living in North America,* equal in condition, the progeny of one race, owing their origin to the same cause, and preserving the same civilization, the same language, the same religion, the same habits, the same manners, and imbued with the same opinions, propagated under the same forms. The rest is uncertain, but this is certain ; and it is a fact new to the world — a fact fraught with such portentous consequences as...