Walter Colyton: A Tale of 1688, Volume 2H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 |
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... I believe it , for you would better have known what is due to a gen- tleman and a soldier . What new business is toward , I wonder , that I must march to Picca- dilly , in double quick time ? What roysterers and WALTER COLYTON . 125 1 ...
... I believe it , for you would better have known what is due to a gen- tleman and a soldier . What new business is toward , I wonder , that I must march to Picca- dilly , in double quick time ? What roysterers and WALTER COLYTON . 125 1 ...
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... soldier having received an inti- mation from the Premier , that his reception at the Levee would be more likely to be favourable if he had previously joined his troop , and were presented in a red - coat , set about the comple- tion of ...
... soldier having received an inti- mation from the Premier , that his reception at the Levee would be more likely to be favourable if he had previously joined his troop , and were presented in a red - coat , set about the comple- tion of ...
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... soldier , had always entertained a marked predilection for the army . With the exception , perhaps , of a conversion to Popery , there was no more certain passport to his favour than the military profession ; hence all the aspi- rants ...
... soldier , had always entertained a marked predilection for the army . With the exception , perhaps , of a conversion to Popery , there was no more certain passport to his favour than the military profession ; hence all the aspi- rants ...
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... step of James's latter career , he had ostentatiously set up a Roman Catholic Chapel in the centre of this armament , as if for the express purpose of offending and alienating the very soldiers , who had WALTER COLYTON . 131.
... step of James's latter career , he had ostentatiously set up a Roman Catholic Chapel in the centre of this armament , as if for the express purpose of offending and alienating the very soldiers , who had WALTER COLYTON . 131.
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A Tale of 1688 Horace Smith. of offending and alienating the very soldiers , who had already , in more than one instance , testified their abhorrence of Popery , and on whom he mainly relied for the forced conver- sion of his subjects ...
A Tale of 1688 Horace Smith. of offending and alienating the very soldiers , who had already , in more than one instance , testified their abhorrence of Popery , and on whom he mainly relied for the forced conver- sion of his subjects ...
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Page 298 - The mysteries of Hecate, and the night; By .all the operation of the orbs, From whom we do exist, and cease to be ; Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood, And as a stranger to my heart and me Hold thee, from this, for ever.
Page 144 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 95 - I chuse a companion for wit and pleasure, it should be you; or for honesty to interchange my bosom with, it should be you; or wisdom to give me counsel, I would pick out you; or valour to defend my reputation, still I...
Page 30 - LET us drink and be merry, dance, joke, and rejoice, With claret and sherry, theorbo and voice! The changeable world to our joy is unjust, All treasure's uncertain, Then down with your dust! In frolics dispose your pounds, shillings, and pence, For we shall be nothing a hundred years hence.
Page 191 - That they may be avenged of them; as it is written, Such honour have all his saints.
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Page 208 - The point at issue was this : The duty of man being to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself...
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