随笔分类 - 狄更斯的英国史
摘要：如题，如： O Henry : Biography and Literary Works (englishliterature.net) Mark Twain : Biography and Literary Works (englishliterature.net) Gulliver's Trav
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摘要：CHAPTER 37 I have now arrived at the close of my little history. The events which succeeded the famous Revolution of one thousand six hundred and eigh
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摘要：Their bewilderment [confusion] continuing, the people now lighted bonfires and made rejoicings, as if they had any reason to be glad to have the King
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摘要：At one o'clock on the morning of the eleventh, the King, who had, in the meantime, received a letter from the Prince of Orange, stating his objects, g
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摘要：Between the petition and the trial, the Queen had given birth to a son, which Father Petre rather thought was owing to Saint Winifred. But I doubt if
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摘要：A spirit began to arise in the country, which the besotted [发蠢的] blunderer [犯错误的人] little expected. He first found it out in the University of Cambrid
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摘要：Nor was even this all. Jeffreys was as fond of money for himself as of misery for others, and he sold pardons wholesale to fill his pockets. The King
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摘要：The atrocities, committed by the Government, which followed this Monmouth rebellion, form the blackest and most lamentable page in English history. Th
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摘要：Encouraged by this homage [尊荣], he proclaimed himself King, and went on to Bridgewater. But, here the Government troops, under the Earl of Feversham,
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摘要：Argyle was the first to act upon this contract. But, two of his men being taken prisoners at the Orkney Islands, the Government became aware of his in
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摘要：CHAPTER 36 ENGLAND UNDER JAMES THE SECOND King James the Second was a man so very disagreeable [令人不快的], that even the best of historians has favoured
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摘要：The Duke of Monmouth had been making his uncle, the Duke of York, very jealous, by going about the country in a royal sort of way, playing at the peop
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摘要：The University of Oxford distinguished itself {sarcasm} on the very same day by pretending to believe that the accusation against Lord Russell was tru
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摘要：Lord Shaftesbury (who died soon after the King's failure against him), Lord William Russell, the Duke of Monmouth, Lord Howard, Lord Jersey, Algernon
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摘要：The Duke of York, then residing in Scotland, had, under the law which excluded Catholics from public trust, no right whatever to public employment. [T
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摘要：As the Duke of York became more and more unpopular, the Duke of Monmouth became more and more popular. It would have been decent in the latter not to
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摘要：As soon as Oates's wickedness had met with this success, up started another villain, named William Bedloe, who, attracted by a reward of five hundred
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摘要：There was a fellow named Blood, who was seized for making, with two companions, an audacious attempt to steal the crown, the globe, and sceptre, from
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摘要：As his one merry head might have been far from safe, if these things had been known, they were kept very quiet, and war was declared by France and Eng
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