The London Quarterly Review, Volume 19Theodore Foster, 1819 |
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... received great advantage , ' and with whom in consequence he formed a lasting intimacy . The university was then exceedingly regular under the discipline which Laud had established as chancellor . Had Laud been born a gene- ration ...
... received great advantage , ' and with whom in consequence he formed a lasting intimacy . The university was then exceedingly regular under the discipline which Laud had established as chancellor . Had Laud been born a gene- ration ...
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... received a volunteer in Captain Apsley's corps , and took his turn in ' watching on a horn work , and trailing a pike , ' till the fortifications were re- paired . He found himself on hot service for a young drinker , ' and after a ...
... received a volunteer in Captain Apsley's corps , and took his turn in ' watching on a horn work , and trailing a pike , ' till the fortifications were re- paired . He found himself on hot service for a young drinker , ' and after a ...
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... received so high a polish , that it might have been mistaken for porphyry , and he wondered that it was not used in England for cabinets and rooms of state . It is indeed surprising that notwithstanding the appalling frequency of fires ...
... received so high a polish , that it might have been mistaken for porphyry , and he wondered that it was not used in England for cabinets and rooms of state . It is indeed surprising that notwithstanding the appalling frequency of fires ...
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... received considerable improvement . Some curious facts in the history of horticulture are found in his Acetaria . It was scarcely an hundred years , he tells us , since cabbages were introduced from Holland into this country , one of ...
... received considerable improvement . Some curious facts in the history of horticulture are found in his Acetaria . It was scarcely an hundred years , he tells us , since cabbages were introduced from Holland into this country , one of ...
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... received personal civilities from him when his wife came from France , and had sold an estate to him since that time ; he now proposed to him to deliver up the Tower to Charles ; Monk was in Scotland , and the game was in Morley's hands ...
... received personal civilities from him when his wife came from France , and had sold an estate to him since that time ; he now proposed to him to deliver up the Tower to Charles ; Monk was in Scotland , and the game was in Morley's hands ...
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