The World's Great Events: An Indexed History of the World from Earliest Times to the Present Day, Band 5Esther Singleton P. F. Collier, 1916 |
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allies Argyle arms army artillery attack Austria battle Bavaria bishops Blenheim Bourbon called camp cavalry Charles XII Colonies command Company council court crown Czar Danube death declared defeated Duke Duke of Lorraine Dutch Earl of Mar Emperor Empire enemy England English Europe fight fire force France French German Glencoe Glenlyon Hamilton hand Holland horse house of Bourbon hundred infantry Irish Jacobites James John joined Kaiser Kara Mustafa King King's kingdom land London Lord Louis XIV Mac Ian Marl Marlborough Marshal ment ministers nation officers Parliament passed peace persons Peter Poland possession Prince Eugene Protestant Pultowa Queen regiments resolved retreat Rhine river royal Russia sailed Seckendorf sent ship Sobieski soldiers South Sea South Sea Company Spain squadrons success Sweden Tallard THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thousand tion took Tories town treaty troops Turks victory Villars Whigs whole William
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Seite 1373 - And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast.
Seite 1374 - Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness; but they cried unto the Lord, and He heard their voice and looked on their adversity,
Seite 1372 - Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation (as may be remembered by that which went before), they had now no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertain or refresh their weatherbeaten bodies; no houses or much less towns to repair to, to seek for succour.
Seite 1678 - He says that if they are not free in their present state England is not free ; because Manchester, and other considerable places, are not represented. So then, because some towns in England are not represented America is to have no representative at all. They are " our children;" but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.
Seite 1687 - England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle rather than a formed body...
Seite 1366 - So they left that goodly and pleasant city which had been their resting-place near twelve years ; but they knew they were pilgrims and looked not much on those things, but lift up their eyes to the heavens, their dearest country, and quieted their spirits.
Seite 1448 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Seite 1687 - ... this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough acta parentum jam legere, et quce sit poterit cognoscere virtus.
Seite 1645 - I REJOICE that America has resisted — three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest.
Seite 1375 - And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west ; from the north, and from the south. 4 They went astray in the wilderness out of the way, and found no city to dwell in.