The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 14G. Berger, 1868 - Anecdotes |
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Page 120
... occasion to display new talents in the public service . Towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV . D'Aguesseau was threatened with disgrace , for having refused to register the famous bull Unigenitus . When he was about to set out for ...
... occasion to display new talents in the public service . Towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV . D'Aguesseau was threatened with disgrace , for having refused to register the famous bull Unigenitus . When he was about to set out for ...
Page 136
... occasion , that the Lord Lieutenant gave him , with his life , a place of 7001. sterling , a year ; while the merchant , who had been accused , from resembling him strongly , dying some time after without heirs , left Frank his whole ...
... occasion , that the Lord Lieutenant gave him , with his life , a place of 7001. sterling , a year ; while the merchant , who had been accused , from resembling him strongly , dying some time after without heirs , left Frank his whole ...
Page 150
... occasion , the success of the court candidate was doubtful , a batch of those forty - shilling voters was manufactured for the occasion , and the same identical acre was sometimes transferred in succession from one to twenty tenants ...
... occasion , the success of the court candidate was doubtful , a batch of those forty - shilling voters was manufactured for the occasion , and the same identical acre was sometimes transferred in succession from one to twenty tenants ...
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