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... wished to ask . I may have failed in satisfying the almost bound- less inquiries of intelligent children , and I could wish that the mother or governess who may put this little book into the hands of her pupils , would read each chapter ...
... wished to ask . I may have failed in satisfying the almost bound- less inquiries of intelligent children , and I could wish that the mother or governess who may put this little book into the hands of her pupils , would read each chapter ...
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... wished • CHAPTER XLI . 141 EDWARD VI . - 1547 to 1553 . How Edward the Sixth was taught to be a Protestant ; how the Protector Somerset went to war in Scotland ; how he caused his brother to be be- headed , and was afterwards beheaded ...
... wished • CHAPTER XLI . 141 EDWARD VI . - 1547 to 1553 . How Edward the Sixth was taught to be a Protestant ; how the Protector Somerset went to war in Scotland ; how he caused his brother to be be- headed , and was afterwards beheaded ...
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... wished to get rid of James on account of his tyranny ; how the Prince of Orange came over to England , and was made King ; and how James escaped to France ... 209 CHAPTER LIII . WILLIAM III . - MARY II . - 1688 to 1702 . How there were ...
... wished to get rid of James on account of his tyranny ; how the Prince of Orange came over to England , and was made King ; and how James escaped to France ... 209 CHAPTER LIII . WILLIAM III . - MARY II . - 1688 to 1702 . How there were ...
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... wished to have some of them for servants , and some for soldiers . And they saw too that the country was very pretty , and that if anybody who knew how to build nice houses , and to make proper fields , were to live here , it would be a ...
... wished to have some of them for servants , and some for soldiers . And they saw too that the country was very pretty , and that if anybody who knew how to build nice houses , and to make proper fields , were to live here , it would be a ...
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... wished , they all said so , and then it was not made into a law . But it would have been very troublesome for all the men to go to the king every time he wanted to make a new law , or to change an old one , so the men in one town said ...
... wished , they all said so , and then it was not made into a law . But it would have been very troublesome for all the men to go to the king every time he wanted to make a new law , or to change an old one , so the men in one town said ...
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