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... finish " An English subject , " says Gibbon , " may be prompted by a just and liberal curiosity to investigate the origin and story of the House of Brunswick ; which , after an alliance with the daughters of our kings , has been called ...
... finish " An English subject , " says Gibbon , " may be prompted by a just and liberal curiosity to investigate the origin and story of the House of Brunswick ; which , after an alliance with the daughters of our kings , has been called ...
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... finished , than a veteran half - pay officer presented his royal highness with the lost pocket book , saying , he had found it near the stand , but had not an opportunity of ap- proaching him earlier . The duke refused to receive it ...
... finished , than a veteran half - pay officer presented his royal highness with the lost pocket book , saying , he had found it near the stand , but had not an opportunity of ap- proaching him earlier . The duke refused to receive it ...
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... any person : and having finished , rang his bell , and gave it to his valet- de - chambre , directing it to be carried immediately to Mr. Pitt . THE KING'S MUNIFICENCE . During his majesty's illness in 1789 GEORGE THE THIRD . 139.
... any person : and having finished , rang his bell , and gave it to his valet- de - chambre , directing it to be carried immediately to Mr. Pitt . THE KING'S MUNIFICENCE . During his majesty's illness in 1789 GEORGE THE THIRD . 139.
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... finished . A lady , who was in the habit of close attendance on the Princess Amelia during her illness , described to a reverend doctor ( from whom we have the anec- dote ) some of the latter interviews which took place between the ...
... finished . A lady , who was in the habit of close attendance on the Princess Amelia during her illness , described to a reverend doctor ( from whom we have the anec- dote ) some of the latter interviews which took place between the ...
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... the gods he has made . " Pausanias relates , that when this artist had finished his magnificent statue of the Olympian Jupiter , Jupiter himself applauded his la- bours ; for when Phidias urged the god to show B 2 THE ...
... the gods he has made . " Pausanias relates , that when this artist had finished his magnificent statue of the Olympian Jupiter , Jupiter himself applauded his la- bours ; for when Phidias urged the god to show B 2 THE ...
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