A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 4A. Fullarton, 1853 |
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... nature sufficiently strong to work on the mind of so great a man . The dutchess has very natu- rally omitted the facts , which documents lately discovered have proved beyond all question , that Marlborough , with Godolphin , his ...
... nature sufficiently strong to work on the mind of so great a man . The dutchess has very natu- rally omitted the facts , which documents lately discovered have proved beyond all question , that Marlborough , with Godolphin , his ...
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... nature , divested of reflection , conjures up , when we think on the misfortunes , without the demerits of Charles I. Without the particular features of any Stuart , the chevalier has the strong lines and fatality of air peculiar to ...
... nature , divested of reflection , conjures up , when we think on the misfortunes , without the demerits of Charles I. Without the particular features of any Stuart , the chevalier has the strong lines and fatality of air peculiar to ...
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... nature of his mis- sion was , he acquitted himself in it to the satisfaction of his royal mas- ter , and , on his return , in the succeeding year , was appointed principal secretary of state in the room of Sir Joseph Williamson . Rapin ...
... nature of his mis- sion was , he acquitted himself in it to the satisfaction of his royal mas- ter , and , on his return , in the succeeding year , was appointed principal secretary of state in the room of Sir Joseph Williamson . Rapin ...
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... nature of their em- ployment obliged them to demand a sight of them ; and that , as they doubted not they were salt provisions , the act of showing them could be of no consequence one way or the other . " I told you , " says the captain ...
... nature of their em- ployment obliged them to demand a sight of them ; and that , as they doubted not they were salt provisions , the act of showing them could be of no consequence one way or the other . " I told you , " says the captain ...
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... is a most transcendent thing , and of a high nature , and the law takes notice of it as such in divers statutes . The right of voting is a right in the plaintiff by the common law , and consequently he may PERIOD . ] 53 SIR JOHN HOLT .
... is a most transcendent thing , and of a high nature , and the law takes notice of it as such in divers statutes . The right of voting is a right in the plaintiff by the common law , and consequently he may PERIOD . ] 53 SIR JOHN HOLT .
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