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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... crushing machines worked by windmills or horse power , stillhouses containing great copper tanks and boilers , a personnel of overseers , clerks , engineers and coopers , and a dominating mansion for the wealthy owner of the whole .
... crushing machines worked by windmills or horse power , stillhouses containing great copper tanks and boilers , a personnel of overseers , clerks , engineers and coopers , and a dominating mansion for the wealthy owner of the whole .
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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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But in the whole collision ? 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 ...
But in the whole collision ? 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 ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 9 |
ENGLAND AND THE OPENING OF THE ATLANTIC | 22 |
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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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