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  • [1] John Evans, The Juvenile Tourist; or, Excursions through various parts ... of Great-Britain ... illustrated with maps, ...

    Letter 192 2009

  • Unfortunately, the Dutch requirements for MD en PHD degrees are somewhat different from those in the USA or Great-Britain.

    Is There a Doctor on the Blog? 1 Dinosaur 2009

  • Other countries like Great-Britain or Denmark are pretty flexible when it comes to fire workers with not much safety nets for the fired workers in the UK and a lot more in Denmark.

    Unemployment: Do Europhiles Have Anything to Celebrate?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • When they lay in Edinburgh castle in 1778, and were ordered to embark for Jersey, they with a number of other men in the regiment, for different reasons, but especially an apprehension that they were to be sold to the East-India Company, though enlisted not to be sent out of Great-Britain without their own consent, made a determined mutiny and encamped upon the lofty mountain,

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • It is somewhat curious, that his literary career appears to have been almost totally suspended in the years 1745 and 1746, those years which were marked by a civil war in Great-Britain, when a rash attempt was made to restore the House of Stuart to the throne.

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • I said that I would endeavour to do what Dr. Johnson suggested and I thought that I might write so as to venture to publish my History of the Civil War in Great-Britain in 1745 and 1746, without being obliged to go to a foreign press.

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • Great-Britain to tax America, and attempted to argue in favour of our fellow-subjects on the other side of the Atlantick.

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • Great-Britain towards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable me to inform myself upon that momentous subject, he had altogether disregarded; and had recently published a pamphlet, entitled, Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress.

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • I told him, that I heard Dr. Percy was writing the history of the wolf in Great-Britain.

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • To put an end entirely to the {198} importation of any Tobacco from Great-Britain into France, in the space of twelve years.

    History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

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