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Page vi
... taken as the leading trait of his character before his illness , but it must be taken in conjunction with other things . It was tempered by a vein of thought- fulness , a touch of melancholy , as much concealed as it was in the nature ...
... taken as the leading trait of his character before his illness , but it must be taken in conjunction with other things . It was tempered by a vein of thought- fulness , a touch of melancholy , as much concealed as it was in the nature ...
Page x
... taken up was suddenly assailed on a new side , from the Radical , not the Conservative direc- tion , he may have shown a certain amount of hesita- tion which to one who was indiscriminately opposed to all Reform and all Liberalism was ...
... taken up was suddenly assailed on a new side , from the Radical , not the Conservative direc- tion , he may have shown a certain amount of hesita- tion which to one who was indiscriminately opposed to all Reform and all Liberalism was ...
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... taken from a paper by Mr. Richard Sprye , an antiquarian who was commissioned by Lord Melbourne to make researches into the past history of the Lambs . 2 Six children were the issue of the marriage : Peniston , born in 1770 , who died ...
... taken from a paper by Mr. Richard Sprye , an antiquarian who was commissioned by Lord Melbourne to make researches into the past history of the Lambs . 2 Six children were the issue of the marriage : Peniston , born in 1770 , who died ...
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... taken a measure which appears of such moment that , if I did not know that one always exaggerates the events of the day , I should think it must either lead them to the scaffold , or make them the perpetual , ab- solute tyrants of this ...
... taken a measure which appears of such moment that , if I did not know that one always exaggerates the events of the day , I should think it must either lead them to the scaffold , or make them the perpetual , ab- solute tyrants of this ...
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... taken place in his Majesty's councils , and on the last - mentioned day he accordingly moved a resolution to that effect . . The order of the day was moved by Mr. Milnes , ' the member for Pontefract , a young man of only two - and ...
... taken place in his Majesty's councils , and on the last - mentioned day he accordingly moved a resolution to that effect . . The order of the day was moved by Mr. Milnes , ' the member for Pontefract , a young man of only two - and ...
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Page 79 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.