The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688, Volume 4United Company of bookseller, 1775 - Great Britain |
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... carried to a more exorbitant height the ftate and dignity of that character . His train confifted of eight hundred fervants , of whom many were knights and gen- tlemen : Some even of the nobility put their children into his family as a ...
... carried to a more exorbitant height the ftate and dignity of that character . His train confifted of eight hundred fervants , of whom many were knights and gen- tlemen : Some even of the nobility put their children into his family as a ...
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... carried before him a pillar of filver , on whose top was placed a crofs : But not content with this parade , to which he thought himself intitled as cardinal , he pro- vided another prieft , of equal ftature and beauty , who marched ...
... carried before him a pillar of filver , on whose top was placed a crofs : But not content with this parade , to which he thought himself intitled as cardinal , he pro- vided another prieft , of equal ftature and beauty , who marched ...
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... carrying off the young King , and putting him under the protection of her brother ; and when that confpiracy was detected , the herself , accompanied with Hume and Angus , withdrew into England , where fae was foon after delivered of a ...
... carrying off the young King , and putting him under the protection of her brother ; and when that confpiracy was detected , the herself , accompanied with Hume and Angus , withdrew into England , where fae was foon after delivered of a ...
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... carried on the Scots history some years beyond the prefent period ; that as that country had little connexion with the general system of Europe , we might be the lefs interrupted in the narration of those memorable events , which were ...
... carried on the Scots history some years beyond the prefent period ; that as that country had little connexion with the general system of Europe , we might be the lefs interrupted in the narration of those memorable events , which were ...
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... prosperity ? " BUT Wolfey carried the matter much farther than vain pomp and oftentation . He erected an office , which T Polydore Virgil , lib . 27 . he he called the legantine court ; and as he was 14 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... prosperity ? " BUT Wolfey carried the matter much farther than vain pomp and oftentation . He erected an office , which T Polydore Virgil , lib . 27 . he he called the legantine court ; and as he was 14 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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