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The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
epub |eng | 2018-07-07 | Author:Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul [Paul, Herbert W.]

Several years afterwards, in 1878, the subject was fully discussed, and Froude's conclusions were shown to be unsound, by another historian, William Edward Hartpole Lecky. Lecky was a much more ...
( Category: United Kingdom February 26,2023 )
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 3 (of 3) by John Morley
epub |eng | 2020-08-15 | Author:John Morley [Morley, John]

April 5.—Wrote to Lord Spencer. The Queen and ministers. Four hours on the matter for my speech. 1-½ hours with Welby and Hamilton on the figures. Saw Lord Spencer, Mr. ...
( Category: England February 26,2023 )
The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
epub |eng | 2021-12-02 | Author:A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan [Mahan, A. T.]

FOOTNOTES: [35] This indicates no opinion as to the fortune of the military operations in England, a landing once effected. It has, however, seemed to the author singular that men ...
( Category: United Kingdom February 26,2023 )
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by James Harrison
epub |eng | 2014-10-08 | Author:James Harrison [Harrison, James]

"SIR, "I desire you will take under your command the number of seamen and marines named in the margin, who will be under the command of Captains Hood, Freemantle, Bowen, ...
( Category: United Kingdom February 26,2023 )
The Life of St. Patrick and His Place in History by John B. Bury
epub |eng | 1905-01-15 | Author:John B. Bury [Bury, John B.]

8. Vita Tertia An anonymous Life of Patrick, dating perhaps from the ninth century, is preserved in MSS. representing two different recensions, which I have investigated and attempted to reconstruct ...
( Category: Ireland February 26,2023 )
Leisure and Class in Victorian England by Peter Bailey
epub |eng | 2014-01-14 | Author:Peter Bailey [Bailey, Peter]

Though he was apprehensive at the dangers that the popularity of athletic sports posed to intellectual life at the universities, Stephen allowed that they met the need for physical recreation ...
( Category: England February 26,2023 )
Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by Henri de Crignelle
epub |eng | 2021-02-24 | Author:Henri de Crignelle [Crignelle, Henri de]

* * * CHAPTER XIV. Mare No. 2.—Description of it—Not sought after by the sportsman—The sick banker—The doctor's prescription—The patient's disgust at it—Is at length obliged to yield—Leaves Paris for ...
( Category: France February 26,2023 )
Letters of a Russian Traveler, 1789-1790 by N. M. Karamzin Florence Jonas
epub |eng | 1976-04-02 | Author:N. M. Karamzin, Florence Jonas [N. M. Karamzin, Florence Jonas]

Paris, April 2, 1790 “I am in Paris!” This thought produces in my soul a kind of peculiar, agitated, inexplicable, delightful sensation. “I am in Paris!” I tell myself as ...
( Category: Switzerland February 26,2023 )
Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope by Bolingbroke Henry St. John Viscount
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount [Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount]

A LETTER TO ALEXANDER POPE. Dear Sir,—Since you have begun, at my request, the work which I have wished long that you would undertake, it is but reasonable that I ...
( Category: United Kingdom February 26,2023 )
Libertys Folly:Polish Lithuan by Jerzy Tadeusz Lukavski
epub |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:Jerzy Tadeusz Lukavski [Lukavski, Jerzy Tadeusz]

AUGUSTUS III, POLAND AND EUROPE Polish historians have traditionally portrayed Augustus III as a cipher for the greater part of his reign in the hands of his favourite and chief ...
( Category: Baltic States February 26,2023 )
Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623) by John Lothrop Motley
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

Both silent, laborious, plodding, plotting functionaries, thriftily gathering riches; skilled in routine and adepts at intrigue; steady self-seekers, and faithful to office in which their lives had passed, they might ...
( Category: Europe February 26,2023 )
Law and Society in Later Medieval England and Ireland by Travis R. Baker
epub |eng | 2020-06-30 | Author:Travis R. Baker [Baker, Travis R.]

8 Two jurisdictions in dispute about canonical appeals London and Canterbury, 1375–61 F. Donald Logan Introduction The Court of Arches was the most important church court in medieval England. It ...
( Category: Europe February 26,2023 )
The Last Days of Mary Stuart, and the journal of Bourgoyne her physician by Samuel Cowan
epub |eng | 2019-12-16 | Author:Samuel Cowan [Cowan, Samuel]

* * * CHAPTER VIII Gorges again attacks Mary about Elizabeth's life—Mary's sharp response, and Gorges silenced—Procession sets out from Burton and reaches Hill Hall Castle; next day it reaches ...
( Category: Europe February 26,2023 )
The Last Crusade in the West by Joseph F. O'Callaghan
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Joseph F. O'Callaghan [O'Callaghan, Joseph F.]

Bernáldez related that as Abū ‘Abd Allāh approached Fernando, he wanted to dismount and kiss his hands, but the king would not allow it. Instead, the emir kissed his arm ...
( Category: History of Spain & Portugal February 26,2023 )
The 'Labour Hercules': The Irish Citizen Army and Irish Republicanism, 1913–23 by Jeffrey Leddin
epub |eng | 2019-03-20 | Author:Jeffrey Leddin [Leddin, Jeffrey]

10 ‘THAT SMALL GARRISON CARRIED OUT THEIR ORDERS’: DUBLIN CASTLE AND ITS ENVIRONS If one of the most striking features of the St Stephen’s Green garrison was that it began ...
( Category: Europe February 26,2023 )

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