Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... King of Spain . Colonna visits Florence on his way from Lombardy to his own domains . He is invited to meet some ... kings seem to prove the superiority of the weapons used by the legions . The same experiment had been recently tried ...
... King of Spain . Colonna visits Florence on his way from Lombardy to his own domains . He is invited to meet some ... kings seem to prove the superiority of the weapons used by the legions . The same experiment had been recently tried ...
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... king's deer on their way to Parliament , or as their old remedy of scandalum magnatum . Yet we must acknowledge that , though our political opinions are by no means aristocratical , we always feel kindly disposed towards noble authors ...
... king's deer on their way to Parliament , or as their old remedy of scandalum magnatum . Yet we must acknowledge that , though our political opinions are by no means aristocratical , we always feel kindly disposed towards noble authors ...
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... King's eldest sister had married Lewis the Fourteenth . The Dauphin would , therefore , in the common course of inheritance , have succeeded to the crown . But the Infanta had , at the time of her espousals , solemnly renounced , in her ...
... King's eldest sister had married Lewis the Fourteenth . The Dauphin would , therefore , in the common course of inheritance , have succeeded to the crown . But the Infanta had , at the time of her espousals , solemnly renounced , in her ...
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... King , though the chief author of the Partition Treaty , succeeded in turning the whole wrath of Charles and of the ... King . On the side of the Imperial family was the Queen , herself a Princess of that family . With her were allied ...
... King , though the chief author of the Partition Treaty , succeeded in turning the whole wrath of Charles and of the ... King . On the side of the Imperial family was the Queen , herself a Princess of that family . With her were allied ...
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... King . Never were knave and dupe better suited to each other . Charles was sick , nervous , and extravagantly superstitious . Porto Carrero had learned in the exercise of his profession the art of exciting and soothing such minds ; and ...
... King . Never were knave and dupe better suited to each other . Charles was sick , nervous , and extravagantly superstitious . Porto Carrero had learned in the exercise of his profession the art of exciting and soothing such minds ; and ...
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