The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford; the Hon. Sir Dudley North; and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North: Together with the Autobiography of the Author, Volume 11890 |
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... public acknowledgment of the many favours your Lordship has conferred upon , MY LORD , Your Lordship's most obedient , and obliged humble servant , MOUNTAGU NORTH . [ 1740. ] الدم AUTHOR'S PREFACE . 1 . IT may not be improper 2 DEDICATION .
... public acknowledgment of the many favours your Lordship has conferred upon , MY LORD , Your Lordship's most obedient , and obliged humble servant , MOUNTAGU NORTH . [ 1740. ] الدم AUTHOR'S PREFACE . 1 . IT may not be improper 2 DEDICATION .
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... favour with the busy agitating party of men in his time , A then termed the fanatic party ; and those are the chief architects of fame : and having nothing ill to say of him , they would say no good , and therefore chose to say nothing ...
... favour with the busy agitating party of men in his time , A then termed the fanatic party ; and those are the chief architects of fame : and having nothing ill to say of him , they would say no good , and therefore chose to say nothing ...
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... favour for it . He 8. But much may be attributed to the finishing of him at Bury school , under Dr. Stevens , a cavalier master . was so forward and exact a scholar there , that the bulky doctor in his pedantic strain used to say he was ...
... favour for it . He 8. But much may be attributed to the finishing of him at Bury school , under Dr. Stevens , a cavalier master . was so forward and exact a scholar there , that the bulky doctor in his pedantic strain used to say he was ...
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... favour . 29. This historiette manifests the little safety there is in false dealing , as much as the loftier accounts of hazards or decadences of great ministers of the court : for if this young lawyer , for want of experience or ( we ...
... favour . 29. This historiette manifests the little safety there is in false dealing , as much as the loftier accounts of hazards or decadences of great ministers of the court : for if this young lawyer , for want of experience or ( we ...
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... favour , as when the person is not of standing or hath not performed his exercises : but being early admitted , his time was fully run out and he per- formed all his moots both in the inns of Chancery ( for it is the custom for the inns ...
... favour , as when the person is not of standing or hath not performed his exercises : but being early admitted , his time was fully run out and he per- formed all his moots both in the inns of Chancery ( for it is the custom for the inns ...
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