The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 8H.D. Symonds, 1799 |
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... reign of Henry II . Before he was raised to the fee of Canterbury , he was a very fupple courtier , and conformed himself in every thing to the humour of the king . But after he was made archbishop , he oc- cafioned much disturbance by ...
... reign of Henry II . Before he was raised to the fee of Canterbury , he was a very fupple courtier , and conformed himself in every thing to the humour of the king . But after he was made archbishop , he oc- cafioned much disturbance by ...
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... reign in his own despite . On that fam'd mead their honeft claims to feal , They risk'd their private for the public weal ; Bravely refolv'd to make the tyrant yield , Or die like heroes on the glorious field . Hume has thus briefly ...
... reign in his own despite . On that fam'd mead their honeft claims to feal , They risk'd their private for the public weal ; Bravely refolv'd to make the tyrant yield , Or die like heroes on the glorious field . Hume has thus briefly ...
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... reign of Charles the Second , for five poor old women , who have each a little orchard to themfelves . This Sir John , was the father of Denham the poet , who took particular de- light in this fpot . He immortalized himself by a poem ...
... reign of Charles the Second , for five poor old women , who have each a little orchard to themfelves . This Sir John , was the father of Denham the poet , who took particular de- light in this fpot . He immortalized himself by a poem ...
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... reign of queen Elizabeth , and the fecond time in the year 1731 , when the fire raged fo violently , that few of the people faved any of their goods . It moft unfortunately happened , at this laft conflagration , that the inhabitants ...
... reign of queen Elizabeth , and the fecond time in the year 1731 , when the fire raged fo violently , that few of the people faved any of their goods . It moft unfortunately happened , at this laft conflagration , that the inhabitants ...
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... reign of Henry VIII . it was enacted , that the cord . age of the English navy should , for a limited time , be made in this town , or within five miles of it . The foil ftill produces as good crops of hemp as any in England . We now ...
... reign of Henry VIII . it was enacted , that the cord . age of the English navy should , for a limited time , be made in this town , or within five miles of it . The foil ftill produces as good crops of hemp as any in England . We now ...
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