A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 5George Godfrey Cunningham A. Fullarton, 1855 |
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... piece of barbarity cannot be received as a legitimate excuse for another , especially in the circumstances of per- fect security in which the duke was placed by his victory ; but the truth is , the alleged orders were a forgery , -they ...
... piece of barbarity cannot be received as a legitimate excuse for another , especially in the circumstances of per- fect security in which the duke was placed by his victory ; but the truth is , the alleged orders were a forgery , -they ...
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... pieces , chiefly of a political nature , and some verses of a licentious character . i George , Lord Anson . BORN A. D. 1697. - DIED A. D. 1762 . GEORGE ANSON was born in 1697 , at Shrugborough manor , Staf- fordshire . He was the ...
... pieces , chiefly of a political nature , and some verses of a licentious character . i George , Lord Anson . BORN A. D. 1697. - DIED A. D. 1762 . GEORGE ANSON was born in 1697 , at Shrugborough manor , Staf- fordshire . He was the ...
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... pieces , were originally written in that seminary of learning , whence he was removed to the university of Oxford , where he pursued his classical studies with uncommon avidity , and sketched the plan of his Persian Letters , ' a work ...
... pieces , were originally written in that seminary of learning , whence he was removed to the university of Oxford , where he pursued his classical studies with uncommon avidity , and sketched the plan of his Persian Letters , ' a work ...
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... pieces to a license from an officer of the court , who , ex officio , must be in the interest of the minister . It passed the lower house by a majority of two to one . In the upper house , upon a mo- tion for committing it , after ...
... pieces to a license from an officer of the court , who , ex officio , must be in the interest of the minister . It passed the lower house by a majority of two to one . In the upper house , upon a mo- tion for committing it , after ...
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... As no man is perfect , as no man is infallible , the greatest may err , the most circumspect may be guilty of some piece of ridiculous behaviour . It is no licentiousness , it PERIOD . ] 91 STANHOPE , EARL OF CHESTERFIELD .
... As no man is perfect , as no man is infallible , the greatest may err , the most circumspect may be guilty of some piece of ridiculous behaviour . It is no licentiousness , it PERIOD . ] 91 STANHOPE , EARL OF CHESTERFIELD .
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