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Pagina 8
... public dignity and splendour commenced in August 1713 , and continued till the August following ; but I am afraid that , according to the usual fate of greatness , it was attended with some perplexities and mortifications . He had not ...
... public dignity and splendour commenced in August 1713 , and continued till the August following ; but I am afraid that , according to the usual fate of greatness , it was attended with some perplexities and mortifications . He had not ...
Pagina 98
... public confession of adultery the most obvious and expeditious method of obtaining her liberty ; and therefore declared , that the child , with which she was then great , was begotten by the Earl Rivers . This , as may be imagined ...
... public confession of adultery the most obvious and expeditious method of obtaining her liberty ; and therefore declared , that the child , with which she was then great , was begotten by the Earl Rivers . This , as may be imagined ...
Pagina 183
... public attestation ; and the man , whose heart has not been hardened by such an employment , may be justly pro- posed as a pattern of benevolence . If an inscription was once engraved to the honest toll - gatherer , ' less honours ought ...
... public attestation ; and the man , whose heart has not been hardened by such an employment , may be justly pro- posed as a pattern of benevolence . If an inscription was once engraved to the honest toll - gatherer , ' less honours ought ...
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