A History of Our Own Times from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume 3Chatto & Windus, 1880 - Great Britain |
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... became more and more evident that there was no such defence or explanation . Men found their consciences coerced into a condemnation of Sir John Bowring's conduct . It was almost ludicrous when the miserable quibblings and evasions of ...
... became more and more evident that there was no such defence or explanation . Men found their consciences coerced into a condemnation of Sir John Bowring's conduct . It was almost ludicrous when the miserable quibblings and evasions of ...
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... became for electioneering purposes an insolent barbarian ; and the story of a Chinese baker who was said to have tried to poison Sir John Bowring became transfigured into an attempt at the wholesale poisoning of Englishmen in China by ...
... became for electioneering purposes an insolent barbarian ; and the story of a Chinese baker who was said to have tried to poison Sir John Bowring became transfigured into an attempt at the wholesale poisoning of Englishmen in China by ...
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... a lonely island in the Pacific , some eight hundred miles from the New South Wales shore . Norfolk Island became the 1857 . EARLY TRANSPORTATION . 27 penal settlement for the. 26 CH . XXXI . A HISTORY OF OUR OWN TIMES . TRANSPORTATION.
... a lonely island in the Pacific , some eight hundred miles from the New South Wales shore . Norfolk Island became the 1857 . EARLY TRANSPORTATION . 27 penal settlement for the. 26 CH . XXXI . A HISTORY OF OUR OWN TIMES . TRANSPORTATION.
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... became what were called with hardly any exaggeration ' floating hells . ' It was quite clear that the whole system of our dealings with our convicts 1853 . PENAL SERVITUDE . 37 must be revised and. 36 CH . XXXI . A HISTORY OF OUR OWN TIMES ...
... became what were called with hardly any exaggeration ' floating hells . ' It was quite clear that the whole system of our dealings with our convicts 1853 . PENAL SERVITUDE . 37 must be revised and. 36 CH . XXXI . A HISTORY OF OUR OWN TIMES ...
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... became illegal in 1857 , their doom having been fixed for that time by an Act passed in the previous session . Thenceforward such marriages were unlawful , unless one of the parties had lived at least twenty - one days previously in ...
... became illegal in 1857 , their doom having been fixed for that time by an Act passed in the previous session . Thenceforward such marriages were unlawful , unless one of the parties had lived at least twenty - one days previously in ...
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