The Expansion of England: Two Courses of LecturesMacmillan, 1883 - 309 Seiten |
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... reign of Queen Anne . " After this explanation you will see that the question I raised , What is the general drift or goal of English history ? is much more definite than it might at first sight appear . I am not thinking of any general ...
... reign of Queen Anne . " After this explanation you will see that the question I raised , What is the general drift or goal of English history ? is much more definite than it might at first sight appear . I am not thinking of any general ...
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... reign to those of Gilbert and Raleigh , had failed alike . Great Britain did not yet exist ; Scotland was a separate kingdom , and in Ireland the English were but a colony in the midst of an alien population still in the tribal stage ...
... reign to those of Gilbert and Raleigh , had failed alike . Great Britain did not yet exist ; Scotland was a separate kingdom , and in Ireland the English were but a colony in the midst of an alien population still in the tribal stage ...
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... Reign of Queen Anne , Reign of George I. , Reign of George II . In place of these we must study to put divisions founded upon some real stage of progress in the national life . We must look onward not from king to king , but from great ...
... Reign of Queen Anne , Reign of George I. , Reign of George II . In place of these we must study to put divisions founded upon some real stage of progress in the national life . We must look onward not from king to king , but from great ...
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... reign of George III . What can be more absurd than to treat this long period of sixty years as if it had any historical unity , simply because one man was king during the whole of it ? What then are we to substitute for the king as a ...
... reign of George III . What can be more absurd than to treat this long period of sixty years as if it had any historical unity , simply because one man was king during the whole of it ? What then are we to substitute for the king as a ...
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... reign of William III . Between the Revolution and the Battle of Waterloo it may be reckoned that we waged seven great wars , of which the shortest lasted seven years and the longest about twelve . Out of a hundred and twenty- six years ...
... reign of William III . Between the Revolution and the Battle of Waterloo it may be reckoned that we waged seven great wars , of which the shortest lasted seven years and the longest about twelve . Out of a hundred and twenty- six years ...
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Seite 19 - Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America...
Seite 2 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak...
Seite 179 - We hold ourselves bound to the natives of our Indian territories by the same obligations of duty which bind us to all our other subjects ; and those obligations, by the blessing of Almighty God, we shall faithfully and conscientiously fulfil.
Seite 291 - ... a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Seite 44 - I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races...
Seite 162 - are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.
Seite 168 - Spectator," the past age returns, the England of our ancestors is revivified. The May-pole rises in the Strand again in London; the churches are thronged with daily worshippers; the beaux are gathering in the...
Seite 168 - I get the expression of the life of the time ; of the manners, of the movement, the dress, the pleasures, the laughter, the ridicules of society — the old times live again, and I travel in the old country of England. Can the heaviest historian do more for me...
Seite 12 - We ought by no means to take for granted that this is desirable. Bigness is not necessarily greatness; if by remaining in the second rank of magnitude we can hold the first rank morally and intellectually, let us sacrifice mere material magnitude.
Seite 154 - When we have accustomed ourselves to contemplate the whole Empire together and call it all England, we shall see that here too is a United States. Here too is a great homogeneous people, one in blood language religion and laws, but dispersed over a boundless space.