The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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Page 159
... seemed to have come to the usual unprofit- able end . But the Rev. John White , the Puritan incumbent of the parish of Holy Trinity , Dorchester , saw in the venture an opportunity to further a project of wider import . Conditions in ...
... seemed to have come to the usual unprofit- able end . But the Rev. John White , the Puritan incumbent of the parish of Holy Trinity , Dorchester , saw in the venture an opportunity to further a project of wider import . Conditions in ...
Page 372
... seemed to depend on Prussia . Frederick , whose victory at Mollwitz ( April 1741 ) proved that the only Austrian army could not drive him from Silesia , skilfully prolonged the auction at which the irreconcileables , Britain and France ...
... seemed to depend on Prussia . Frederick , whose victory at Mollwitz ( April 1741 ) proved that the only Austrian army could not drive him from Silesia , skilfully prolonged the auction at which the irreconcileables , Britain and France ...
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... seemed shockingly severe . Three magistrates might condemn a slave to death . Where two slaves , one an old offender , the other a boy of sixteen , had robbed a man of his watch , etc. , the old man who arranged the theft and received ...
... seemed shockingly severe . Three magistrates might condemn a slave to death . Where two slaves , one an old offender , the other a boy of sixteen , had robbed a man of his watch , etc. , the old man who arranged the theft and received ...
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