| American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...elapsec since the English people have by force subverted a government. During the hundred and sixty years which preceded the union of the Roses, nine...deposed. Five lost their lives, as well as their crowns. It is evident, therefore, that any comparison between our ancient and our modern polity must lead to... | |
| 1849 - 588 pages
...elapsed since the English people have by force subverted a government. During the hundred and sixty r is ready ; that in all these respects, it is also (being drawn with a It is evident, therefore, that any comparison between our ancient and our modern I>olity must lead... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...elapsed since the English people have by force subverted a government. During the hundred and sixty years which preceded the union of the Roses, nine...deposed. Five lost their lives as well as their crowns. It is evident, therefore, that any comparison between our ancient and our modern polity must lead to... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1849 - 840 pages
...longest period ; but it had a mortal struggle with the Plantagenets, for, " during the hundred and sixty years which preceded the union of the Roses, nine...deposed. Five lost their lives as well as their crowns." Civil war was the rule rather than the exception. The transactions, however unconstitutional, in one... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...elapsed since the English people have by force subverted a government. During the hundred and sixty years which preceded the union of the Roses, nine...these nine Kings were deposed. Five lost their lives ai well as their ciowns. It it evident, therefore, that any comparison between our ancient and our... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 560 pages
...elapsed since the English people have by force subverted a government. During the hundred and sixty years which preceded the union of the * Roses, nine kings reigned in England. Six of these nine 7-,/ ,,.•'. kings were deposed. Five lost their lives as well as their crowns. It is evident, therefore,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...force subverted a government. During the hundred and sixty years which preceded the union of the Eoses, nine Kings reigned in England. Six of these nine Kings...deposed. Five lost their lives as well as their crowns. It is evident, therefore, that any comparison between our ancient and our modern polity must lead to... | |
| Popular educator - 1852 - 1272 pages
...of the signing the Magna Charta r What are its chief provisions ? 5. "During the hundred and sixty years which preceded the union of the Roses, nine...deposed. Five lost their lives as well as their crowns." (Macaulay.) Give a list of these nine kings, and mention briefly the circumstances which led to the... | |
| Alfred Elwes - 1872 - 306 pages
...roots, though at a depth of eighteen or twenty feet below the surface. 25. During the hundred and sixty years which preceded the union of the Roses nine kings...deposed. Five lost their lives as well as their crowns. 26. The modern system of music is one of the few M Among, referring to nations 24 Marsh of Curragh,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1855 - 556 pages
...force subverted a government. During the hundred and sixty years which preceded the union of the — j Roses, nine kings reigned in England. Six of these...deposed. Five lost their lives as well as their crowns. (It is evident, therefore, that any comparison between our ancient and our modern polity must lead... | |
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