The navies of the worldRoutledge, Warnes and Routledge, 1859 - 439 sivua |
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Sivu 119 - I do also make Oath, That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors ; and that I will, as in Duty bound, honestly and faithfully defend Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in Person, Crown, and Dignity, against all Enemies ; and will observe and obey all Orders of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and of the Generals and Officers set over me. So help me GOD.
Sivu 4 - Including their Church and State, the Re-organization of the Inquisition, the Rise, Progress, and Consolidation of the Jesuits, and the means taken to effect the Counter-Reformation in Germany, to revive Romanism in France, and to suppress Protestant Principles in the South of Europe. Translated from the last edition of the German by WALTER K. KELLY, of Trinity College, Dublin. " This translation of Ranke we consider to be very superior to any other In the English language.
Sivu 3 - In a word, excellent (rifts are applied to the advantage of the people — a poetical instinct and a full knowledge of English History. It has nothing about it of commonplace compilation. It is the work of a man of remarkable ability, having as such a style of its own, and a grace that cannot fail to exercise its refining Influence upon uneducated people. The amount of solid information it compresses in a small compass excites in the reader's mind repeated surprise.
Sivu 111 - Islands, which till this time, from the period of the Norman conquest, have never been successfully invaded. " I have in vain endeavoured to awaken the attention of different administrations to this state of things ; as well known to our neighbours, rivals in power at least, former adversaries and enemies, as it is to ourselves.
Sivu 1 - The History of Modern Europe : with a View of the Progress of Society, from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763.
Sivu 115 - Do we suppose that we should be allowed to keep — could we advance a pretension to keep — more than the islands composing the United Kingdom, ceding disgracefully the Channel Islands, on which an invader had never established' himself since the period of the Norman conquest? I am bordering upon seventy-seven years of age passed in honour. I hope the Almighty may protect me from being the witness of the tragedy which I cannot persuade my contemporaries to take measures to avert.
Sivu 4 - ... Death of Wellington. With Portraits of all the Sovereigns. '* In this edition, the editor has added some facts which had been overlooked by the author, and preceded the original work by a short notice of the earlier history, gathered from the old chroniclers, and continued to the present time. To each chapter is appended a series of questions, by means of which the tutor will readily be enabled to examine the pupil as to the impressions the facts have made on his memory.
Sivu 27 - Thus about the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century there was an officially designated frontier line for New England.
Sivu 114 - You will see, from what I have written, that I have contemplated the danger to which you have referred. I have done so for years. I have drawn to it the attention of different Administrations at different times.