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... PRESENT TIME . 22 BIBL ୯ A NEW EDITION , REVISED AND ENLARGED BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS , F. S. A. DE LA N LLE VOL . XV . LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. NICHOLS AND SON ; F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON ; T. PAYNE , OTRIDGE AND SON ; G. AND W. NICOL ...
... PRESENT TIME . 22 BIBL ୯ A NEW EDITION , REVISED AND ENLARGED BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS , F. S. A. DE LA N LLE VOL . XV . LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. NICHOLS AND SON ; F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON ; T. PAYNE , OTRIDGE AND SON ; G. AND W. NICOL ...
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... present at the siege of Almeyda . Every day M .. de Fourcroy worked fourteen hours in his closet , when the duties of the service did not compel him to quit it . irresistible propensity to the study of natural philosophy would have led ...
... present at the siege of Almeyda . Every day M .. de Fourcroy worked fourteen hours in his closet , when the duties of the service did not compel him to quit it . irresistible propensity to the study of natural philosophy would have led ...
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... present of 100,000 % . In 1535 he was promoted to the bishopric of Hereford . He was the principal pillar of the reformation , as to the politic and prudential part of it ; being of more activity , and no less ability , than Cranmer ...
... present of 100,000 % . In 1535 he was promoted to the bishopric of Hereford . He was the principal pillar of the reformation , as to the politic and prudential part of it ; being of more activity , and no less ability , than Cranmer ...
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... presents him as a fine preacher , but adds , that " his in- clination to politics brake through all the ignoble restraints of pedantique studies , to an eminency , more by observa- tion and travel , than by reading and study , that made ...
... presents him as a fine preacher , but adds , that " his in- clination to politics brake through all the ignoble restraints of pedantique studies , to an eminency , more by observa- tion and travel , than by reading and study , that made ...
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... speeches , or , because , when brought before the higher powers , they exhorted the magistrates and other persons present " to tremble at the name of the Lord . " 1 In 1655 Fox was sent prisoner to Cromwell , 24 FOX .
... speeches , or , because , when brought before the higher powers , they exhorted the magistrates and other persons present " to tremble at the name of the Lord . " 1 In 1655 Fox was sent prisoner to Cromwell , 24 FOX .
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