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Excerpt from A History of the English People, Vol. 5: From 1815 to the Present Time Turning to matters of a more tangible kind, we find as great a difference in the England of 1793 and of 1815. The population and resources of the country had grown in those twenty-two years in a measure for which previous history could afford no parallel. The distribution of the newly-gotten wealth was far less satisfactory, and numer ous social problems had g...

Excerpt from Oxford During the Last Century: Being Two Series of Papers Published in the Oxford Chronicle and Berks and Bucks Gazette During the Year 1859 It is not our purpose, as it is not in our power in this brief and cursory sketch, to trace the rise and progress of all those religious houses which were established in Oxford to give effect to the grand schemes Of St. Augustin and St. Benedict and other founders Of the conventual system. ...

Excerpt from Historical StudiesI have gathered together in this small volume some historical sketches written by J. R. Green during the time of his work in the East End of London, before the writing of the Short History. In the Letters lately published, Mr. Green describes the circum stances oi difficulty and enthusiasm under which many of these papers were written.The studies on Dunstan, on London and Stephen, the Ban of Kenilworth, and one o...

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Excerpt from A Short History of the English People, Vol. 2 Table formerly in the Treasury of the King's Exchequer, and then in the Harleian Library, but now lost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, pres...

Excerpt from History of the English People, Vol. 3 of 5History of the Reformation. Among the con temporary materials for the history of Mary Stuart we have the well-known works of Buchanan and Leslie, Labanofi's Lettres et Mémoires de Marie Stuart, the correspondence appended to Mignet's biography, Stevenson's Illustrations of the Life of Queen Mary. Melville's memoirs, and the col lections of Keith and Anderson.About the PublisherForgotten Bo...

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Excerpt from History of the English People, Vol. 1 of 5Chronicle which concerns this period. The life of Wilfrid by Eddi, with those of Cuthbert by an anonymous contemporary and by Baeda himself, throw great light on the religious and intellectual condition of the North at the time of its supremacy. But with the fall of Northumbria we pass into a period of historical dearth. A few incidents of Mercian history are preserved among the meagre ann...

Excerpt from A Short History of the English People, Vol. 3 HE fall of Walpole revealed a change in the temper of England which was to in¿uence from that time to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, prese...

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Excerpt from A Short History of the English People, Vol. 2Had an audible voice to read to them. One John Porter used sometimes to be occupied in that goodly exer cise, to the edifying of himself as well as others. -this Porter was a fresh young man and of a big stature, and great multitudes would resort thither to hear him, because he could read well and had an audible voice. But the goodly exercise of readers such as Porter was soon super sed...

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