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... called around his sick - bed his uncle of Exeter , his brothers Clarence and Gloucester , and sent a hasty summons for his eldest brother , the Duke of Bedford . To them he com- mitted the care and interests of his successor and of both ...
... called around his sick - bed his uncle of Exeter , his brothers Clarence and Gloucester , and sent a hasty summons for his eldest brother , the Duke of Bedford . To them he com- mitted the care and interests of his successor and of both ...
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... called , though their leader was dead ) to win the crown for the Dauphin . Burgundy had refused to assume the regency for the child Henry ; but Bedford endeavoured to give him as much as possible an interest in French concerns . He ...
... called , though their leader was dead ) to win the crown for the Dauphin . Burgundy had refused to assume the regency for the child Henry ; but Bedford endeavoured to give him as much as possible an interest in French concerns . He ...
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... called his fortunes ( a common pretext with the indolent , who would rather succumb to failure than make the effort necessary to rise above it ) , had Charles been left to himself , he would probably have let things take their course ...
... called his fortunes ( a common pretext with the indolent , who would rather succumb to failure than make the effort necessary to rise above it ) , had Charles been left to himself , he would probably have let things take their course ...
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... called up the feudatory lords and vassals of her son , and procured from the Duke of Bedford a strong force , directed by the Earls of Salisbury and Suffolk . We need not enter into the particulars of the conflict that followed . defeat ...
... called up the feudatory lords and vassals of her son , and procured from the Duke of Bedford a strong force , directed by the Earls of Salisbury and Suffolk . We need not enter into the particulars of the conflict that followed . defeat ...
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... called The King's Quair , wherein he recounts the story of his love . It was with him a passion pure and romantic , but tinged with melancholy from his imprisonment . The poem opens by his telling how once he listened to the matins bell ...
... called The King's Quair , wherein he recounts the story of his love . It was with him a passion pure and romantic , but tinged with melancholy from his imprisonment . The poem opens by his telling how once he listened to the matins bell ...
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