Memoirs of
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共 23 段- When Law presented himself at court, he was most cordially r
- The price of shares sometimes rose ten or twenty per cent. i
- Every epithet that popular hatred could suggest was showered
- As soon as his departure was known, all his estates and his
- In the mean time, innumerable joint-stock companies started
- The state of things now became alarming. To prevent, if poss
- In the mean time, Knight, the treasurer of the Company, and
- The tulip,--so named, it is said, from a Turkish word, signi
- Next in renown were those precious relics, the tears of the
- Other prophecies were current, which were asserted to have b
- "Anone after the fame of this phantasticall prophet went all
- "Let me exhort ye, then, to open the locks of your hearts wi
- Anselm, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who had been a monk of
- By the fire-ordeal the power of deciding was just as unequiv
- The preparations were conducted on a scale of the greatest m
- At the same time that Louis published this severe edict, he
- A barbarous and fiercely-contested duel was fought in Novemb
- "Well, son John," said the old woman, "and what wonderful th
- Another very odd phrase came into repute in a brief space af
- The tragedy and afterpiece were concluded full two hours bef
- It was to be expected that after this triumph, the war in th
- The following is the wild and startling legend upon which th
- So far we learn from Captain Sleeman, who only brought down