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Pagina 92
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours there was no hour of prayer , either solitary or with his household ...
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours there was no hour of prayer , either solitary or with his household ...
Pagina 158
... lived with great splendour and hospitality ; and from time to time amused himself with poetry , in which he sometimes speaks of the rebels , and their usurpation , in the natural language of an honest man . At last it became necessary ...
... lived with great splendour and hospitality ; and from time to time amused himself with poetry , in which he sometimes speaks of the rebels , and their usurpation , in the natural language of an honest man . At last it became necessary ...
Pagina 167
... lived in exile ; for we are told , that at Paris he lived in splendour , and was the only Englishman , except the Lord St. Alban's , that kept a table . His unlucky plot compelled him to sell a thousand a year ; of the waste of the rest ...
... lived in exile ; for we are told , that at Paris he lived in splendour , and was the only Englishman , except the Lord St. Alban's , that kept a table . His unlucky plot compelled him to sell a thousand a year ; of the waste of the rest ...
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ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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