Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... never known the ready penny so hard to come by ? Or what else will your uncle Everard do for us ? Get us a furlough to beg ? Why , I can do that without him . " 66 " You misconstrue him much , " answered Alice , with more spirit than ...
... never known the ready penny so hard to come by ? Or what else will your uncle Everard do for us ? Get us a furlough to beg ? Why , I can do that without him . " 66 " You misconstrue him much , " answered Alice , with more spirit than ...
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... never show my grey beard , worn in sorrow for my sovereign's death , to move the compassion of some proud sequestrator , who perhaps was one of the parricides . No. If Henry Lee must sue for food , it shall be of some sound loyalist ...
... never show my grey beard , worn in sorrow for my sovereign's death , to move the compassion of some proud sequestrator , who perhaps was one of the parricides . No. If Henry Lee must sue for food , it shall be of some sound loyalist ...
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... never lacked a text to justify a murder - d - n him too . Bletson - a true- blue commonwealth's man , one of Harrrison's Rota Club , with his noddle full of new - fangled notions about government , the clearest object of which is to ...
... never lacked a text to justify a murder - d - n him too . Bletson - a true- blue commonwealth's man , one of Harrrison's Rota Club , with his noddle full of new - fangled notions about government , the clearest object of which is to ...
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... Never mind ; d -- n Bletson too . " Friend , " said the soldier , " I would willingly be civil , but it consists not with my duty to hear these godly men , in whose service I am , spoken of after this irreverent and unbecoming fashion ...
... Never mind ; d -- n Bletson too . " Friend , " said the soldier , " I would willingly be civil , but it consists not with my duty to hear these godly men , in whose service I am , spoken of after this irreverent and unbecoming fashion ...
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... never- theless , seeing that there may be a turning from thine evil ways , and a returning to those which are good , if the Lord enlarge thy date for repentance and amendment , wherefore should it be shortened by a poor sinful mortal ...
... never- theless , seeing that there may be a turning from thine evil ways , and a returning to those which are good , if the Lord enlarge thy date for repentance and amendment , wherefore should it be shortened by a poor sinful mortal ...
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Page 106 - ... speaker that ever perplexed an audience. It has been long since said by the historian that a collection of the Protector's speeches would make, with a few exceptions, the most nonsensical book in the world; but he ought to have added that nothing could be more nervous, concise, and intelligible than what he really intended should be understood. It was also remarked of Cromwell that, though born of a good family, both by father and mother, and although he had the usual opportunities of education...