The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and (14597654487)

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Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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e them whollysubordinate. Again the Lords were vehemently defiant. They declared they would notpass such a bill, no matter how the Commons might vote or how the peoplevoted throughout the country. They admitted the grotesque absurdity ofhaving two-thirds of their number permanently absent from all debate andonly turning up when their class leaders summoned them to register a blindlyobstinate No against any Liberal measure. But the Lords offered to reformthemselves; they would reduce their number; they would themselves elect fromamong themselves a small body who should be the parliament Lords and whowould attend regularly. Mr. Asquith, however, insisted grimly that he woulddo his own reforming. It was amid the tumult of this quarrelling—perhaps partly because of it—that the aged King Edward died on May 6, 1910. During his reign Englandspossessions had expanded until her dominion covered thirteen million square, miles, constituting one-fourth of the entire land surface of the globe.
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