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Page 374
... publick in commotion , he honestly appeared among the friends of the church . He lived to his seventy - ninth year , and died May 20 , 1713 . Burnet is not very favourable to his memory ; but he and Burnet were old rivals . On some publick ...
... publick in commotion , he honestly appeared among the friends of the church . He lived to his seventy - ninth year , and died May 20 , 1713 . Burnet is not very favourable to his memory ; but he and Burnet were old rivals . On some publick ...
Page 403
... publick employment , he obtained ( in 1699 ) a pension of three hundred pounds a year , that he might be enabled to travel . He stayed a year at Blois , probably to learn the French language ; and then pro- ceeded in his journey to ...
... publick employment , he obtained ( in 1699 ) a pension of three hundred pounds a year , that he might be enabled to travel . He stayed a year at Blois , probably to learn the French language ; and then pro- ceeded in his journey to ...
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... publick money , without any care to find or employ those whose appearance might do honour to their country . To this Godolphin replied , that such abuses should in time be rectified ; and that if a man could be found capable of the task ...
... publick money , without any care to find or employ those whose appearance might do honour to their country . To this Godolphin replied , that such abuses should in time be rectified ; and that if a man could be found capable of the task ...
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