Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... England , and living under the tuition of the Rev. Nehemiah Hold enough , much famed for the length and strength of his powers of predication . With these grave seniors sate their goodly dames in ruff and gorget , like the portraits ...
... England , and living under the tuition of the Rev. Nehemiah Hold enough , much famed for the length and strength of his powers of predication . With these grave seniors sate their goodly dames in ruff and gorget , like the portraits ...
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... England's throat with- it was forged at Long Marston Moor , where blows went faster than ever rung hammer on anvil - and it was tempered at Naseby , in the best blood of the cavaliers - and it was welded in Ireland against the walls of ...
... England's throat with- it was forged at Long Marston Moor , where blows went faster than ever rung hammer on anvil - and it was tempered at Naseby , in the best blood of the cavaliers - and it was welded in Ireland against the walls of ...
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... England's son of Jesse ! —You , who were fighting as well as your might could ( and it was not very formidable ) for the late Man , under that old blood - thirsty papist Sir Jacob Aston - are you not now plotting , or ready to plot ...
... England's son of Jesse ! —You , who were fighting as well as your might could ( and it was not very formidable ) for the late Man , under that old blood - thirsty papist Sir Jacob Aston - are you not now plotting , or ready to plot ...
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... England , and that by Henry son of William called the Conqueror ? ' And ye have a princely Lodge therein , and call the same a Royal Lodge ; and ye have an oak which ye call the King's Oak ; and ye steal and eat the veni- son of the ...
... England , and that by Henry son of William called the Conqueror ? ' And ye have a princely Lodge therein , and call the same a Royal Lodge ; and ye have an oak which ye call the King's Oak ; and ye steal and eat the veni- son of the ...
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... England will not long endure the rulers which these bad times have assigned her . In the meanwhile- [ here a few words escaped the listener's ears ] -and beware of that impatience which makes bad worse . ' " " " Worse ? " exclaimed the ...
... England will not long endure the rulers which these bad times have assigned her . In the meanwhile- [ here a few words escaped the listener's ears ] -and beware of that impatience which makes bad worse . ' " " " Worse ? " exclaimed the ...
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