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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... touching the chief crises of his life . Afterwards he published a small piece entitled " Passages relating to the Long Parliament , " with an apologetic , or rather , recantation preface . He wrote also the history of the life of the ...
... touching the chief crises of his life . Afterwards he published a small piece entitled " Passages relating to the Long Parliament , " with an apologetic , or rather , recantation preface . He wrote also the history of the life of the ...
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... touched here too much upon the panegyric and forget how hard it is to make good such promises . I must trust to that ; and do but allege here that the nature of this work and my reasons for undertaking it , required no less ; which ...
... touched here too much upon the panegyric and forget how hard it is to make good such promises . I must trust to that ; and do but allege here that the nature of this work and my reasons for undertaking it , required no less ; which ...
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... touching his health , always thinking some fever , consump tion , or other disease creeping upon him , and inclined much to physic for prevention . Once he repaired to Dr. Bokenham , of Bury , with a list of complaints . But the doctor ...
... touching his health , always thinking some fever , consump tion , or other disease creeping upon him , and inclined much to physic for prevention . Once he repaired to Dr. Bokenham , of Bury , with a list of complaints . But the doctor ...
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... touching upon some certain dealings of those persons with whom they transacted ; whose behaviour and tempers will be interwoven and make good the fulness of the relation , as things of different com- plexions distinguish each other ...
... touching upon some certain dealings of those persons with whom they transacted ; whose behaviour and tempers will be interwoven and make good the fulness of the relation , as things of different com- plexions distinguish each other ...
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... touched else- where ; and after that , setting up the ignoramus practices by justifying the perjury in print ; which was when the tables were turned and his friends were obnoxious ; as if the law were a party weathercock : and then ...
... touched else- where ; and after that , setting up the ignoramus practices by justifying the perjury in print ; which was when the tables were turned and his friends were obnoxious ; as if the law were a party weathercock : and then ...
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