The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography & History, Curiosities of Literature, and Oddities of Human Life and Character, Volume 2Robert Chambers W. & R. Chambers, 1869 - Anecdotes |
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... court by the cruelly used prisoner , who , at the conclusion of the trial , or on the following day , handed over , on request , the original and only genuine manuscript copy of it to Mr In Chambers's Edinburgh Wharton , who is believed ...
... court by the cruelly used prisoner , who , at the conclusion of the trial , or on the following day , handed over , on request , the original and only genuine manuscript copy of it to Mr In Chambers's Edinburgh Wharton , who is believed ...
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... court to make themselves merry at his expense , had enclosed with the dispatches , not only the records of the Might not perhaps this circumstance , properly seized , have conduced to trace out the affair ? PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS ...
... court to make themselves merry at his expense , had enclosed with the dispatches , not only the records of the Might not perhaps this circumstance , properly seized , have conduced to trace out the affair ? PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS ...
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... Court , near Henley , and Mr Edmund Waller , of Beaconsfield , happening to see the marbles , were struck with their beauty , and commissioned Mr Theobald to treat with Cuper for their purchase , leaving in his hands a bank - note of ...
... Court , near Henley , and Mr Edmund Waller , of Beaconsfield , happening to see the marbles , were struck with their beauty , and commissioned Mr Theobald to treat with Cuper for their purchase , leaving in his hands a bank - note of ...
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... court of the palace . The fanciful style of eastern costume renders the scene both original and picturesque . All the sheiks are arranged on one side : in the front stand the officers and ministers of the pacha . At five o'clock his ...
... court of the palace . The fanciful style of eastern costume renders the scene both original and picturesque . All the sheiks are arranged on one side : in the front stand the officers and ministers of the pacha . At five o'clock his ...
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... Court , or about Westminster Hall , and the players all resided in the vicinity of the theatres , so that they could attend rehearsal without inconvenience , or expense of coach - hire . effected ; we , the actors , are all now looking ...
... Court , or about Westminster Hall , and the players all resided in the vicinity of the theatres , so that they could attend rehearsal without inconvenience , or expense of coach - hire . effected ; we , the actors , are all now looking ...
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