The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine, Volume 1; Volume 15Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1827 |
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... periods of English history , that we flatter ourselves we shall perform an acceptable service by bringing each " Collection " to the notice of the public ; and , by explaining the nature of the documents they contain , the time to which ...
... periods of English history , that we flatter ourselves we shall perform an acceptable service by bringing each " Collection " to the notice of the public ; and , by explaining the nature of the documents they contain , the time to which ...
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... period , but I have endeavour'd to set this right in the contents . " - Ibid . The Doctor's reference , at the end of his preface , to his long and ill repaid services in the ministry ; to the difficulties which he struggled against ...
... period , but I have endeavour'd to set this right in the contents . " - Ibid . The Doctor's reference , at the end of his preface , to his long and ill repaid services in the ministry ; to the difficulties which he struggled against ...
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... period , and through the succeeding reigns to the present times : With some originals of Queen Ann , Dutchess of Marl- borough , Lord Bolingbroke , Sir Robert Walpole , & c . To which are added several remarkable originals and scarce ...
... period , and through the succeeding reigns to the present times : With some originals of Queen Ann , Dutchess of Marl- borough , Lord Bolingbroke , Sir Robert Walpole , & c . To which are added several remarkable originals and scarce ...
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... period . In a dialogue overheard , not many years ago in a street of Edinburgh , between two fishwomen , lamenting the death of a member of their sisterhood , one of the speakers hap- pened to inquire " if the deceased was not in the ...
... period . In a dialogue overheard , not many years ago in a street of Edinburgh , between two fishwomen , lamenting the death of a member of their sisterhood , one of the speakers hap- pened to inquire " if the deceased was not in the ...
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... period in L'Estrange's trans- lation of Quevedo's Visions ; and there still remains the vul- gar phrase scarcely to be named to ears polite - of making mouths at a person . iii . chap . xi . p . 234 . The four last lines of the seventh ...
... period in L'Estrange's trans- lation of Quevedo's Visions ; and there still remains the vul- gar phrase scarcely to be named to ears polite - of making mouths at a person . iii . chap . xi . p . 234 . The four last lines of the seventh ...
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