The Succession to the English Crown: A Historical Sketch

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Macmillan, 1879 - Great Britain - 298 pages
 

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Page 38 - WORDS AND PLACES ; or, Etymological Illustrations of History, Ethnology, and Geography. By the Rev. ISAAC TAYLOR. Third Edition, revised and compressed. With Maps. Globe 8vo. 6s.
Page 19 - Mighty victor, mighty lord ! Low on his funeral couch he lies! No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies.
Page 15 - JOHNSON'S LIVES OF THE POETS. The Six Chief Lives (Milton, Dryden, Swift, A'ddison, Pope, Gray), with Macaulay's "Life of Johnson.
Page 11 - Goldsmid. — TELEGRAPH AND TRAVEL. A Narrative of the Formation and Development of Telegraphic Communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental Notices of the Countries traversed by the Lines. By Colonel Sir FREDERIC GOLDSMID, CB, KCSI, late Director of the Government Indo-European Telegraph.
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Page 24 - The Later Empire. — Milton's Political Opinions — Milton's Poetry — Elementary Principles in Art — Liberal Education in Universities — English in Schools — The Church as a Teacher of Morality — The Teaching of Politics : an Inaugural Lecture delivered at Cambridge.
Page 15 - THE ROMAN AND THE TEUTON. A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge.

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