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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The series of instructions issued from 1660 to 1696 , considered as a whole and with regard to their development , constitute a commercial and colonial programme that determined for more than a century the policy of the executive ...
The series of instructions issued from 1660 to 1696 , considered as a whole and with regard to their development , constitute a commercial and colonial programme that determined for more than a century the policy of the executive ...
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Only occasionally did it make use of the standing committee , and only on rare occasions did it resolve itself into a committee of the whole House , a device which it used rather as a measure of secrecy against the governor than as a ...
Only occasionally did it make use of the standing committee , and only on rare occasions did it resolve itself into a committee of the whole House , a device which it used rather as a measure of secrecy against the governor than as a ...
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That it did not do so demonstrates that nothing short of some ample and generous measure for revising the whole status of the colonies , urged and granted in the grand manner of which the genius of Chatham was capable , would in the ...
That it did not do so demonstrates that nothing short of some ample and generous measure for revising the whole status of the colonies , urged and granted in the grand manner of which the genius of Chatham was capable , would in the ...
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, John Holland Rose |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1929 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Jun 2008 |
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