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History of England, by Hume and Smollett; with a continuation by T.S. Hughes - Page 386
by David Hume - 1854
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The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the ..., Volume 4

David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 480 pages
...trusted, would shew her *^.*^J favour. On the scaffold she made a speech to the 155*. bye-standers ; in which the mildness of her disposition led her to...•with which she had been treated. She said that her 6ffence was not the having laid her hand upon the crown, but the not rejecting it with sufficient constancy...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...imprudence, were worthy of excuse ; and that God and" 'posterity, she trusted would shew her favour." On the scaffold, she made a speech to the bystanders, in...mildness of her disposition led her to take the blame entirely on herself, without uttering one complaint against the severity with which she had been treated....
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...imprudence, were worthy of excuse ; and that God and posterity, the trusted, would show her favour." On the scaffold, she made a speech to the by-standers, in...mildness of her disposition led her to take the blame entirely on herself, without uttering one complaint ticainst the severity with which she had been treated....
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 4

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...posterity, she trusted, would show her favour.' On the scaffold, she made a speech to the by-stauders, in which the mildness of her disposition led her to take the blame entirely on herself, without uttering one complaint against the severity with which she had been treated....
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The Cheap magazine [ed. by G. Miller.] Vol, Volume 1

George Miller - 1813 - 638 pages
...mildness of her disposition led her to take the blame entirely on herself, without uttering pne complaim against the severity with which she had been treated. She said, that her offence was not having laid her hand upon the crown, but not having rejected it with sufficient constancy : that she...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...the mildness of her disposition led her to take the blame -entirely on herself, without uttering 6"ne complaint against the severity with which she had been treated. .She said that her offence was, not that she had laid her hand upon the crown, but that she had not rejected it with sufficient constancy...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...speech to the bystanders, in which the mildness of her disposition led her to take the blame entirely on herself, without uttering one complaint against...been treated. She said, that her offence was, not having laid her hand upon the crown, but not rejecting it with sufficient constancy : that she had...
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The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the ..., Volume 5

David Hume - Great Britain - 1819 - 368 pages
...posterity, she trusted, would show her favour. On the scaffold she made a speech to the bye-standers; in which the mildness of her disposition led her to...that her offence was not the having laid her hand upon the crown, but the not rejecting it with sufficient constancy: that she had less erred through...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...speech to the by-standers, in which the mildness of her disposition led her to take the blame entirely on herself, without uttering one complaint against...been treated. She said, that her offence was, not that she had laid her hand upon the crown, but that she had not rejected it with sufficient constancy...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...imprudence, were worthy of excuse; and that God and posterity, she trusted would show her favor.'" On the scaffold, she made a speech to the bystanders, in...mildness of her disposition led her to take the blame entirely on herself, without uttering one complaint against the severity with which she had been treated....
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