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... court for the happiness of a people . Fortu - heart with a frigid mistress and a more frigid nately John Villani has given us an ample and precise account of the state of Florence in the earlier part of the fourteenth century . The From ...
... court for the happiness of a people . Fortu - heart with a frigid mistress and a more frigid nately John Villani has given us an ample and precise account of the state of Florence in the earlier part of the fourteenth century . The From ...
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... court at which he resided , to dis- genuineness , if we have been rightly informed , cover and flatter every weakness of the prince is established solely by the comparison of who governed his employers , of the favourite hands . Our ...
... court at which he resided , to dis- genuineness , if we have been rightly informed , cover and flatter every weakness of the prince is established solely by the comparison of who governed his employers , of the favourite hands . Our ...
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... court of Charles the Second . Many years later , when Whig principles were in a great mea- sure triumphant , Sprat refused to admit a mo- nument of John Philips into Westminster Ab- bey , because , in the epitaph , the name of Mil- ton ...
... court of Charles the Second . Many years later , when Whig principles were in a great mea- sure triumphant , Sprat refused to admit a mo- nument of John Philips into Westminster Ab- bey , because , in the epitaph , the name of Mil- ton ...
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... court subject to the royal prerogative . He com- plained , that in Ireland he was not permitted to meddle in cases between party and party . " I know very well , " says he , " that the common lawyers will be passionately against it ...
... court subject to the royal prerogative . He com- plained , that in Ireland he was not permitted to meddle in cases between party and party . " I know very well , " says he , " that the common lawyers will be passionately against it ...
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... court , gave addi- Episcopacy in one part of the island ; Pres- tional effect to its licentious example . We byterians cutting off the heads of popish no- look in vain for those qualities which give a blemen and gentlemen in the other ...
... court , gave addi- Episcopacy in one part of the island ; Pres- tional effect to its licentious example . We byterians cutting off the heads of popish no- look in vain for those qualities which give a blemen and gentlemen in the other ...
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