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epub |eng | 2016-01-07 | Author:Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de [Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de]

CHAPTER LVIII The death of Monseigneur, as we have seen, made a great change in the aspect of the Court and in the relative positions of its members. But the ...
( Category: France February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-30 | Author:Lewis Goldsmith [Goldsmith, Lewis]

LETTER XL. PARIS, September, 1805. My LORD:—Madame de C———n is now one of our most fashionable ladies. Once in the week she has a grand tea-party; once in a fortnight ...
( Category: France February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-08 | Author:Mme. Du Hausset [Hausset, Mme. Du]

Heated by a subject to him so interesting, the Chevalier, forgetful of the respect due to his assumed garb, started from his seat, and, pulling up his petticoats, threw himself ...
( Category: France February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Philip (Research Editor, New Dictionary Of National Biography) Carter [Carter, Philip]

Vicesimus Knox and the pretty preacher Edmund Burke was not the only supposed sentimentalist to draw Mary Wollstonecraft’s scorn. In her account of ‘writers who have rendered women objects of ...
( Category: United Kingdom February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-07 | Author:George Daniel [Daniel, George]

Printed on the River Thames in ye month of January 1740. “Behold the liquid Thames now frozen o'er That lately ships of mighty Burthen bore; Here Watermen, for want to ...
( Category: United Kingdom February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-23 | Author:Teresa Phipps [Phipps, Teresa]

4 Violence, property and ‘bad speech’: women and trespass litigation Urban living brought with it a fair share of interpersonal conflict and violence. Town court records reveal women’s involvement in ...
( Category: Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485) February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 1965-11-01 | Author:G. Kitson Clark [Clark, G. Kitson]

III It would, however, do mid-nineteenth-century opinion an injustice to suggest that they only read the religious census to see how many people went to church and how many to ...
( Category: United Kingdom February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-29 | Author:Walter Besant [Besant, Walter]

THE TALLOW CHANDLERS COMPANY The first charter of incorporation of this Company bears date the 8th of March 1462, 2 Edward IV., wherein the then members of the Company are ...
( Category: United Kingdom February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-16 | Author:Walter Besant [Besant, Walter]

By the charter they constituted a Governor, who must have £4000 in Bank stock; a Deputy Governor, who must have £3000; and twenty-four Directors, who must have £2000 each. The ...
( Category: United Kingdom February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 1906-01-15 | Author:Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson) Reid [Reid, Stuart J.]

FOOTNOTES: [19] Life of Lord Palmerston, by the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, vol. ii. p. 95. [20] Life of E. B. Pusey, D.D., by H. P. Liddon, D.D., vol. iii. p. ...
( Category: United Kingdom February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-12-02 | Author:A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan [Mahan, A. T.]

This letter fulfils his own request to the Admiralty: "All I wish and submit to their Lordships is, that if the business is left to me, my orders may be ...
( Category: United Kingdom February 26,2023 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )