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...foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Co...

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... has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish moun- tains still cling, in part, to their old Gael... ...of Japan to be uneatable – a staggering pretension. So, when the Prince of Wales’s mar- riage was celebrated at Mentone by a dinner to the Mentonese, ...

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...r, and that you can pay too high a price for peace; but that you cannot pay too high for the finding and keeping of your own soul.” (Summary by David Wales)...

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...lasquez, who had in 1623 executed a portrait of Charles I. (then Prince of Wales), was amongst those who in the three or four following years minister... ...ssing the violated equi- librium to our feelings, we subscribed throughout Wales to extort six horses from the astonished innkeepers, most of whom dec... ...nce or distress. A century and a half ago such a Lady Carbery was in South Wales, at the “Golden Grove;” now such another Lady Carbery was in central ... ...a weekly allowance, which would have enabled me to live in any district of Wales, either North or South; for Wales, both North and South, is (or at an... ... the people that it was “sin- ful” to charge less than three shillings. In Wales, meantime, I suffered grievously from want of books; and fancying, in... ...art, I had the unpardonable folly to quit the deep tranquillities of North Wales for the uproars, and perils, and the certain miseries, of London. I h... ... Manx half-pennies, which lately I had con- tinually seen current in North Wales, bearing for their heral- dic distinction three human legs in armor, ... ...tles to consid- eration. Dr. Cyril Jackson had been tutor to the Prince of Wales (George IV.); he had repeatedly refused a bishopric; and that, perhap... ...sions,” a thousandth part of the sufferings I under- went in London and in Wales; partly because the misery was too monotonous, and, in that respect, ...

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...s, or other things, without a legal verdict of their peers, in England or in Wales, they shall be immediately restored to them; and if any dispute sha... ... a tenement of England, ac cording to the law of England; for a tenement of Wales, according to the law of Wales; for tenement of the Marches, accord... ..., we shall immediately do complete justice therein, according to the laws of Wales, and the parts aforesaid. 58 We will immediately deliver up the so... ... We will immediately deliver up the son of Llewelin, and all the hostages of Wales, and release them from their engagements which were made with us, f...

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..., at her return to England, communicated the experiment to the Princess of Wales, now Queen of En- gland. It must be confessed that this princess, abs...

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...ntry into great constituencies such as London or Ulster or Wessex or South Wales, each return- ing a score or more of members, and the establishment o... ...t by the representa- tives of, let us say, twenty great provinces, Ulster, Wales, Lon- don, for example, each returning from twelve to thirty mem- ber...

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...noble ladies bidden to the ball in honor of the newly-imported Princess of Wales. Mary Anne Walkley had worked without intermission for 26 1/2 hours, ...

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.... 126 King’s. 127 ‘Religion:’ an allusion perhaps to Frederick Prince of Wales. 128 ‘First Book of Horace:’ attributed to Pope. 129 The person her...

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...o England than to France; but, while they enjoy, like Canada and New South Wales, com plete control over their internal affairs and their taxation, e...

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...ve its navigation and fleet—let Scotland have its navigation and fleet—let Wales have its navigation and fleet— let Ireland have its navigation and fl...