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... Royal MS . 17A . xxvii . , is very curious , and well deserves to be printed . British Museum . F. MADDEN . ORDER ... Royal , or The Tower * I suppose this to have been the ancient building Royal , used for a time as the Queen's Wardrobe ...
... Royal MS . 17A . xxvii . , is very curious , and well deserves to be printed . British Museum . F. MADDEN . ORDER ... Royal , or The Tower * I suppose this to have been the ancient building Royal , used for a time as the Queen's Wardrobe ...
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... Royal Commissioners for inquiring into the corporation of the city of London , he stated that there is , amongst other payments , one of 1331. " for cloth to the great ministers of state , " the city being bound by an old charter to ...
... Royal Commissioners for inquiring into the corporation of the city of London , he stated that there is , amongst other payments , one of 1331. " for cloth to the great ministers of state , " the city being bound by an old charter to ...
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... Royal Observatory , the Board of Ordnance , the Admiralty , and the Queen , 65. CHEAPSIDE . HORNE & CO.'S Iodized Collodion , for obtaining Instantaneous Views , and Portraits in from three to thirty seconds , according to light ...
... Royal Observatory , the Board of Ordnance , the Admiralty , and the Queen , 65. CHEAPSIDE . HORNE & CO.'S Iodized Collodion , for obtaining Instantaneous Views , and Portraits in from three to thirty seconds , according to light ...
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... Royal 8vo . , price 128. half - bound . BUTLER'S ATLAS OF AN- CIENT GEOGRAPHY . Enlarged to 23 full- coloured Maps ; with a Complete Index . Royal Svo . , price 128. half - bound . " BUTLER'S GEOGRAPHI- CAL COPY - BOOKS , or MAP PROJEC ...
... Royal 8vo . , price 128. half - bound . BUTLER'S ATLAS OF AN- CIENT GEOGRAPHY . Enlarged to 23 full- coloured Maps ; with a Complete Index . Royal Svo . , price 128. half - bound . " BUTLER'S GEOGRAPHI- CAL COPY - BOOKS , or MAP PROJEC ...
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... royal house of Hohenzollern . In like manner , the apparition of two gigantic owls upon the battlements of Wardour is said to give sad warning to the noble race of Arundel . The ancient Catholic family of Middleton have the same fatal ...
... royal house of Hohenzollern . In like manner , the apparition of two gigantic owls upon the battlements of Wardour is said to give sad warning to the noble race of Arundel . The ancient Catholic family of Middleton have the same fatal ...
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Page 330 - And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
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Page 202 - The ill that I this day have done ; That with the world, myself, and Thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.
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Page 386 - ... followers, as being eloquent or loud advances others. He seldom introduces the subject he speaks upon ; but we are so far gone in years, that he observes when he is among us, an earnestness to have him fall on some divine topic, which he always treats with much authority, as one who has no interests in this world, as one who is hastening to the object of all his wishes, and conceives hope from his decays and infirmities.