The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 7Grolier, 1995 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 408
... Empire became the British Empire ( 1707 ) . The Scots , however , retained their own law and courts subject to an appeal to the House of Lords ; they themselves safeguarded their Established Presbyterian Kirk ( Church ) , and they ...
... Empire became the British Empire ( 1707 ) . The Scots , however , retained their own law and courts subject to an appeal to the House of Lords ; they themselves safeguarded their Established Presbyterian Kirk ( Church ) , and they ...
Page 417
... Empire , and even enthusiasm for it , had grown since the 1880's when it had been " discovered " by John Robert Seeley in his Expansion of England . Ten- nyson , Swinburne , Stevenson , W. E. Henley , and above all , Kipling had hymned ...
... Empire , and even enthusiasm for it , had grown since the 1880's when it had been " discovered " by John Robert Seeley in his Expansion of England . Ten- nyson , Swinburne , Stevenson , W. E. Henley , and above all , Kipling had hymned ...
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... Empire by joining to the kingdom of Greece the Greek - speaking lands held by the Ottoman Empire . In 1889 he married Princess Sophie of Prussia , the sister of Emperor William II . Though he had studied military tactics in Greece and ...
... Empire by joining to the kingdom of Greece the Greek - speaking lands held by the Ottoman Empire . In 1889 he married Princess Sophie of Prussia , the sister of Emperor William II . Though he had studied military tactics in Greece and ...
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