Columbian Historical Novels, Volume 7R.H. Whitten Company, 1906 |
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Page 43
... King of England . On ascend- ing the throne , the very first act of James II . was one of honest but imprudent bigotry . Incapable of reading the signs of the times , or fully prepared to dare the worst that those signs could portend ...
... King of England . On ascend- ing the throne , the very first act of James II . was one of honest but imprudent bigotry . Incapable of reading the signs of the times , or fully prepared to dare the worst that those signs could portend ...
Page 44
... king and returned him a very cool answer , implying that before he ventured upon so arduous an enterprise as that of changing the professed faith of nearly his entire people , he would do well to sit down and calculate the cost . The ...
... king and returned him a very cool answer , implying that before he ventured upon so arduous an enterprise as that of changing the professed faith of nearly his entire people , he would do well to sit down and calculate the cost . The ...
Page 46
... king : " I beseech your majesty , that I inform you , that each prisoner will be worth ten pound , if not fifteen pound , apiece , and , sir , if your majesty orders these as you have already designed , persons that have not suffered in ...
... king : " I beseech your majesty , that I inform you , that each prisoner will be worth ten pound , if not fifteen pound , apiece , and , sir , if your majesty orders these as you have already designed , persons that have not suffered in ...
Page 47
... king prove a greater tyrant or more inhuman and cruel than James II . After the in- surrection of Monmouth had been suppressed , all the sanguinary excesses of despotic revenge were revived . Gibbets were erected in villages to intimi ...
... king prove a greater tyrant or more inhuman and cruel than James II . After the in- surrection of Monmouth had been suppressed , all the sanguinary excesses of despotic revenge were revived . Gibbets were erected in villages to intimi ...
Page 55
... king that all serve their term out , and none be allowed to purchase their freedom . " " I will give you one hundred pounds for the slave , " cried Robert . " No. " " A thousand ! " " Robert Stevens , for some reason you want this slave ...
... king that all serve their term out , and none be allowed to purchase their freedom . " " I will give you one hundred pounds for the slave , " cried Robert . " No. " " A thousand ! " " Robert Stevens , for some reason you want this slave ...
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