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... never shoot well , except they be brought up in it : it is a worthy game , a wholesome kind of exercise , and much commended in physic . HIS EXAMINATION BEFORE THE BISHOPS . I was once in examination before five or six bishops , where I ...
... never shoot well , except they be brought up in it : it is a worthy game , a wholesome kind of exercise , and much commended in physic . HIS EXAMINATION BEFORE THE BISHOPS . I was once in examination before five or six bishops , where I ...
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... never else have escaped it . The question was this : Master Latimer , do you not think on your conscience , that you have been suspected of heresy ? A subtle question , a very subtle question . There was no holding of peace would serve ...
... never else have escaped it . The question was this : Master Latimer , do you not think on your conscience , that you have been suspected of heresy ? A subtle question , a very subtle question . There was no holding of peace would serve ...
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... never was , anywhere , any thing like the sixty or seventy years that elapsed from the middle of Elizabeth's reign to the period of the Restoration . In point of real force and originality of genius , neither the age of Pericles , nor ...
... never was , anywhere , any thing like the sixty or seventy years that elapsed from the middle of Elizabeth's reign to the period of the Restoration . In point of real force and originality of genius , neither the age of Pericles , nor ...
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... never saw nor knew in my conscience , Any one woman out of patience . Nothing can exceed the surprise of the other three at this astounding asser tion , except the ingenuity with which they are made to express - unwillingl yet ...
... never saw nor knew in my conscience , Any one woman out of patience . Nothing can exceed the surprise of the other three at this astounding asser tion , except the ingenuity with which they are made to express - unwillingl yet ...
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... never be hurt with continual study ; as ye see in luting , that a treble minikin string must always be let down , but at such time as when a man needs play , when1 the base and dull string need- eth never to be moved out of his place ...
... never be hurt with continual study ; as ye see in luting , that a treble minikin string must always be let down , but at such time as when a man needs play , when1 the base and dull string need- eth never to be moved out of his place ...
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