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... Bishop of Bristol . While his family were still very young , the prince had plays at Leicester House , in which the children of his royal highness sustained the principal cha- racters . These were under the direction of the cele- brated ...
... Bishop of Bristol . While his family were still very young , the prince had plays at Leicester House , in which the children of his royal highness sustained the principal cha- racters . These were under the direction of the cele- brated ...
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... Bishop of Norwich , who was so justly alarmed at the wrong methods which he saw taken in the education of the Prince of Wales , is an enemy to this country , and can only mean at least to govern by a faction , which intends to overthrow ...
... Bishop of Norwich , who was so justly alarmed at the wrong methods which he saw taken in the education of the Prince of Wales , is an enemy to this country , and can only mean at least to govern by a faction , which intends to overthrow ...
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... Bishop Newton , " was justly admired and com- mended by every one , and particularly his manner of ascending and seating himself on the throne after his coronation . No actor in the character of Pyrrhus in the Distrest Mother , not even ...
... Bishop Newton , " was justly admired and com- mended by every one , and particularly his manner of ascending and seating himself on the throne after his coronation . No actor in the character of Pyrrhus in the Distrest Mother , not even ...
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... Bishop of Lincoln . These tracts were subsequently offered to the library at Oxford , and were at last bought for Charles II . by his stationer , Samuel Mearke , whose widow en- deavoured to dispose of them by leave of the said king in ...
... Bishop of Lincoln . These tracts were subsequently offered to the library at Oxford , and were at last bought for Charles II . by his stationer , Samuel Mearke , whose widow en- deavoured to dispose of them by leave of the said king in ...
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... . Layton , " Sir , his manners are those of as fine a gentleman , as we may suppose Louis the Fourteenth , or Charles the Second , to have been . " BISHOP WARBURTON . In the letters of this literary Colossus 78 PERCY ANECDOTES .
... . Layton , " Sir , his manners are those of as fine a gentleman , as we may suppose Louis the Fourteenth , or Charles the Second , to have been . " BISHOP WARBURTON . In the letters of this literary Colossus 78 PERCY ANECDOTES .
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