Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... sent for me ; but the prince said , though he would suspect nothing from our meeting , others might ; so I did not speak with him in private , but in the hearing of others . Yet he took occasion to ask me , so as nobody observed it , if ...
... sent for me ; but the prince said , though he would suspect nothing from our meeting , others might ; so I did not speak with him in private , but in the hearing of others . Yet he took occasion to ask me , so as nobody observed it , if ...
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... sent him back representatives fully determined to keep strict watch on all his measures , and to exclude his brother from the throne . Had the character of Charles resembled that of his father , this intestine discord would infallibly ...
... sent him back representatives fully determined to keep strict watch on all his measures , and to exclude his brother from the throne . Had the character of Charles resembled that of his father , this intestine discord would infallibly ...
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... sent up the most extravagant assu- rances of the love which they bore to their sovereign , and of the abhorrence with which they regarded those who ques- tioned the divine origin or the boundless extent of his pow- er . It is scarcely ...
... sent up the most extravagant assu- rances of the love which they bore to their sovereign , and of the abhorrence with which they regarded those who ques- tioned the divine origin or the boundless extent of his pow- er . It is scarcely ...
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... sent to the Bastile or to Vincennes . But in England , at least after the days of the Long Parliament , the king could not , by a mere act of his prerogative , rid himself of a troublesome politician . He was forced to remove those who ...
... sent to the Bastile or to Vincennes . But in England , at least after the days of the Long Parliament , the king could not , by a mere act of his prerogative , rid himself of a troublesome politician . He was forced to remove those who ...
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... sent from school to school , making very little progress in his learning , and gaining for himself everywhere the character of an ex- cecdingly naughty boy . One of his masters , it is said , was sagacious enough to prophesy that the ...
... sent from school to school , making very little progress in his learning , and gaining for himself everywhere the character of an ex- cecdingly naughty boy . One of his masters , it is said , was sagacious enough to prophesy that the ...
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