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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... story of Siebenkäs ' really found many faithful believers . It is worth mentioning , not as a theory credible in itself , but as an evidence of the belief that had got abroad as to the character and the stratagems of Sadleir . The ...
... story of Siebenkäs ' really found many faithful believers . It is worth mentioning , not as a theory credible in itself , but as an evidence of the belief that had got abroad as to the character and the stratagems of Sadleir . The ...
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... 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 the express orders of the Chinese Governor . Lord Palmerston further ...
... 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 the express orders of the Chinese Governor . Lord Palmerston further ...
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... story of the outbreak in India . It came with terrible , not unnatural , exaggeration . England was horror- stricken by the stories of wholesale massacres of English women and children ; of the most abomin- able tortures , the most ...
... story of the outbreak in India . It came with terrible , not unnatural , exaggeration . England was horror- stricken by the stories of wholesale massacres of English women and children ; of the most abomin- able tortures , the most ...
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... story at the very beginning , and once for all . During the Indian Mutiny the blood of innocent women and children ... stories of the outbreak that reached England dealt in exaggerations of this kind , they do not seem to have ...
... story at the very beginning , and once for all . During the Indian Mutiny the blood of innocent women and children ... stories of the outbreak that reached England dealt in exaggerations of this kind , they do not seem to have ...
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... stories of our disasters in the Crimea had gone abroad , adorned with immense exaggerations , among all the native populations of Hindostan . Any successes that the Russians had had during the war were in Asia , and these naturally ...
... stories of our disasters in the Crimea had gone abroad , adorned with immense exaggerations , among all the native populations of Hindostan . Any successes that the Russians had had during the war were in Asia , and these naturally ...
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