The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those Provinces ... |
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... occasion to exercise his satirical vein in a Latin Poem upon Lancelot Joseph de Maniban , a whimsical Abbè , who , by a new sort of Cheiromancy , pretended to fore- bode the fortunes of individuals , not by the lines of the hands , but ...
... occasion to exercise his satirical vein in a Latin Poem upon Lancelot Joseph de Maniban , a whimsical Abbè , who , by a new sort of Cheiromancy , pretended to fore- bode the fortunes of individuals , not by the lines of the hands , but ...
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... occasion of business , a gentleman whose name is Mr. Marvile ; a man whom , both by report , and the converse I have had with him , of singular desert for the state to make use of ; who alsoe offers himselfe , if there be any im ...
... occasion of business , a gentleman whose name is Mr. Marvile ; a man whom , both by report , and the converse I have had with him , of singular desert for the state to make use of ; who alsoe offers himselfe , if there be any im ...
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... occasion , which we give entire : - " HONOURED SIR , I did not satisfy myself in the account I gave you of presenting your book to my Lord ; although it seemed to me that I wrote to you all which the messenger's speedy return the same ...
... occasion , which we give entire : - " HONOURED SIR , I did not satisfy myself in the account I gave you of presenting your book to my Lord ; although it seemed to me that I wrote to you all which the messenger's speedy return the same ...
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... occasion should survive . We may be certain that he never contem- plated a fruitless opposition to a measure which was the will of the people , and the necessity of the state ; but surely he would , with the smallest chance of success ...
... occasion should survive . We may be certain that he never contem- plated a fruitless opposition to a measure which was the will of the people , and the necessity of the state ; but surely he would , with the smallest chance of success ...
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... occasion to remem- ber you often ; but the quantity is so great , that it might make sober men forgetful . " On the 29th of December the King in person dissolved the Parlia- ment with a most gracious speech . All hitherto had gone ...
... occasion to remem- ber you often ; but the quantity is so great , that it might make sober men forgetful . " On the 29th of December the King in person dissolved the Parlia- ment with a most gracious speech . All hitherto had gone ...
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