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... respect to topics so interesting , and we doubt not that , before our labours are completed , we shall have persuaded all our fair and gentle readers to emulate the fascinating intelligence of the faultless , the ever- placent , ever ...
... respect to topics so interesting , and we doubt not that , before our labours are completed , we shall have persuaded all our fair and gentle readers to emulate the fascinating intelligence of the faultless , the ever- placent , ever ...
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... respecting how you may like it . My lord , you well remember how the Earl of Desmond , your kinsman , sent emissaries with letters to Francis , the French king , offering the aid of Munster and of Connaught for the conquest of Ireland ...
... respecting how you may like it . My lord , you well remember how the Earl of Desmond , your kinsman , sent emissaries with letters to Francis , the French king , offering the aid of Munster and of Connaught for the conquest of Ireland ...
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... respect and courtesy . From that time forward a continued plot was carried on within the divan , black and white , of the nabob of Arcot , for the destruction of Hyder Ali . As to the outward members of the double , or rather treble ...
... respect and courtesy . From that time forward a continued plot was carried on within the divan , black and white , of the nabob of Arcot , for the destruction of Hyder Ali . As to the outward members of the double , or rather treble ...
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... respect of rank or sacredness of function , fathers torn from children , husbands from wives , enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry , and amidst the goading spears of drivers , and the trampling of pursuing horses , were swept into ...
... respect of rank or sacredness of function , fathers torn from children , husbands from wives , enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry , and amidst the goading spears of drivers , and the trampling of pursuing horses , were swept into ...
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... respect promises made by his soldiers , men also little religious themselves as to a point of honour of which they knew not the force . There remained then only one course which reconciled every thing : it was a frightful one ; however ...
... respect promises made by his soldiers , men also little religious themselves as to a point of honour of which they knew not the force . There remained then only one course which reconciled every thing : it was a frightful one ; however ...
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