Book/Printed Material Glimpses of history
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Image 1 of Glimpses of history- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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- Date: 1866
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Image 4 of Glimpses of history- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
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Image 5 of Glimpses of history- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
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Image 6 of Glimpses of history- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
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Image 7 of Glimpses of history GLIMPSES OF HISTORY. \A BY ■7/ GEORGE M. tOWLE. w I) BOSTON: 134 Washington Street. 1866.- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 8 of Glimpses of history ^x^ Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by WILLIAM V. SPENCER, In the Clerk s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. 8T8KK0TYPED AT »HB...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 9 of Glimpses of history TO THE EOJSr, WILLIAM PITT FLSSEJSFDEJSr, THIS VOLUJIE IS RESPECTFULLY INSCItlBED.- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 10 of Glimpses of history- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 11 of Glimpses of history PREFAGU. The ensuing historical and biographical sketches (for they claim to be no more), with two excep- tions, are taken from leading American periodicals, to which they have been, from time to...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 12 of Glimpses of history 6 PBEFACE. They all, more or less, have derived their experi- ence from a contemplation of American institutions. Leigh Hunt, himself of American parentage, was a pioneer in literary reform. There is...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 13 of Glimpses of history Q ONTE NT S. PAGB Memorable Assassinations 9 n. John Bright 29 III. The Opening Scenes op the Rebellion 63 IV. The Last of the Stuarts 67 V. Lord Chancellor Campbell 77...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 14 of Glimpses of history- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 15 of Glimpses of history GLIMPSES OF HISTORY. I. MEMORABLE ASSASSINATIONS. ^XTR country, in the assassination of Peesident LrsTCOLN, has witnessed, for the first time, the death of a public ofificer by violent hands. Hitherto it has...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 16 of Glimpses of history 10 GLIMPSES OF HISTORY. calamities of sister nations, who, in their long struggle towards civilization, have been rent and torn by every misfortune in the range of the im- agination to conceive....- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 17 of Glimpses of history MEMORABLE ASSASSINATIONS. 11 brave, lovers of freedom, protectors of the oppressed of nations, terrors to the black traditions of the older ages, and who died by stolen thrusts, aimed by the despotisms...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 18 of Glimpses of history 12 GLIMPSES OF HISTORY. for all his subjects, than respected for his various abilities, and adored for his untiring devotion to France. In the year 1610, King Henry was preparing an armament...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 19 of Glimpses of history MEMORABLE ASSASSINATIONS. 13 St. Denis. At two in the afternoon, Marie de Me- dicis, conducted by the Cardinal of Gondy, and fol- lowed by the Prince of Conti, who bore the crown,...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 20 of Glimpses of history 14 GLIMPSES OF EISTOBT. evening Henry continued of a happy mood, and was constant in the words of loving admiration, which he bestowed upon Marie s demeanor. Many predictions and ill omens...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 21 of Glimpses of history MEMOBABLE ASSASSINATIONS. 15 servants to aid him in these designs. Such lofty thoughts occupied the mind of this great soul, so near the end of his career. He then paid a visit...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 22 of Glimpses of history 16 GLIMPSES OF EISTOBT. men and women. The king was at this moment sittino: with his arm over Montbazon s shoulder, talk- ing earnestly with him and Espernon, who was on Henry...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 23 of Glimpses of history MEMORABLE ASSASSINATIONS, 17 That Kavaillac was a frenzied bigot, that he was in- stigated by others more sound, and infinitely more wicked, there is no doubt. That blow came from Rome and...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 24 of Glimpses of history 18 GLiMFSiis OF misTour, and was always courteous. Though stern of aspect, he was tolerant, liberal, kind. He had a quick and brilliant eye, which rightly indicated a faculty of pen- etration...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 25 of Glimpses of history MEMORABLE ASSASSINATIONS. 19 amid loud execrations. Maurice, the young son of the prince, examined the pockets of the corpse, to ascertain who he was. It transpired that he was a Spaniard, by...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 26 of Glimpses of history 20 GLIMPSES OF HISTORY, two years, two persons, one a merchant of Flush- ino the other a Spaniard, were convicted of a plot to murder William, and were summarily executed and it...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 27 of Glimpses of history MEMORABLE ASSASSINATIONS. 21 Gerard came to receive his passport, but was desired to wait. The princess, passing, observed him to be restless, and noticed a certain tremor in his voice. When WilHam...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 28 of Glimpses of history 22 GLIMPSES OF HISTORY, and the execrable tyranny of Rome, that neither ever recovered from it. The poor lunatic who did the deed was forgotten amid the tremendous obloquy which was crowded...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 29 of Glimpses of history MEMORABLE ASSASSINATIONS. 23 They had clung to the king through all the storms which had followed upon George s accession to the throne. Their zeal for toryism was thoroughly bigoted and thoroughly...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 30 of Glimpses of history 24 GLIMPSES OF HISTORY. in spite of every obstacle. He could see no merit in any principle which did not coincide with his own prejudices and with a courage which never faltered,...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 31 of Glimpses of history MEMORABLE ASSASSINATIONS. 25 country. His pjirliamentarj triumplis were frequent and complete and no man not even Canning was listened to in the House with a silence so respectful. Such he was when...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 32 of Glimpses of history 26 GLIMPSES OF HISTORY. The House of Commons was at that time engaged in trying, by witnesses, the effect of creating Eng- lish trade into a grand monopoly, which should hold the...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 33 of Glimpses of history MEMORABLE ASSASSINATIONS. 27 Perceval entered the lobby, followed by Mr. Stephen. A sharp, quick shot rang through the hall and a moment after, the prime minister, stag- gering forward a few paces,...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 34 of Glimpses of history 28 0LIMP8E8 OF HISTORY. conviction, execution, and dissection. It appears that Bellingham had no especial malice against Per- ceval, but was resolved to kill any minister whom he happened to meet. He...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 35 of Glimpses of history II. JOHN BRIGHT. JOHN BEIGHT was bom at Greenbank, near the thrifty town of Rochdale, on the 16th of November, 1811. His father was Mr. Jacob Bright, a gentleman who, by his...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 36 of Glimpses of history 30 GLIMPSES OF HISTORY, members of the commercial community. He doubt- less underrated, as the class to which he belonged is apt to do in England, the value of a university edu-...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 37 of Glimpses of history JOHN BRIGHT. 31 a narrower view to self-interest, the commercial class almost universally adopted. When the passage of the Eeform Bill had quieted for a while the agitation on that score, Mr....- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 38 of Glimpses of history 32 GLIMPSES OF HISTORY. vived that agitation against the corn laws which had once before engaged the earnest attention of the coun- try. Mr. Bright had the patent evidence all around him...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 39 of Glimpses of history JOHN BRIGHT. 3 Q obnoxious from their long opposition to reform, steadily maintained the existing laws, and continued to be the devoted partisans of the landed interest. The aristocratic Whigs, who were...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866
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Image 40 of Glimpses of history 34 GLIMPSES OF HISTORY. necessity. The champions of the League, spreading among the rural communities, eloquently pointed out the great evils which they sought to eradicate. They were untiring in their exertions,...- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1866