The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... clerks , engineers and coopers , and a dominating mansion for the wealthy owner of the whole.1 The in- dispensable basis was soon found to be the negro slave , although a transition period of some twenty years elapsed before he had ...
... clerks , engineers and coopers , and a dominating mansion for the wealthy owner of the whole.1 The in- dispensable basis was soon found to be the negro slave , although a transition period of some twenty years elapsed before he had ...
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Only occa- sionally 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 occa- sionally 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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But in the whole collision2 English critics , like those of every country and of every age , saw clear proof of the unscrupulousness of the foreign Government and of the incompetence of their own . To the younger Horace Walpole the sins ...
But in the whole collision2 English critics , like those of every country and of every age , saw clear proof of the unscrupulousness of the foreign Government and of the incompetence of their own . To the younger Horace Walpole the sins ...
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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 | Macmillan, 1929 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 5 Mar 2009 |
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