The Quarterly Review, Volume 19William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1818 |
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... called , where their quarters and en- campments are so admirably regular , and orders so exactly ob- served , as few cities exceed it for all convenience . ' He remained about three months in the Netherlands and then returned to Eng ...
... called , where their quarters and en- campments are so admirably regular , and orders so exactly ob- served , as few cities exceed it for all convenience . ' He remained about three months in the Netherlands and then returned to Eng ...
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... called , Monte Mantumiato , which is of an excessive height ever and anon peep- ing above any clowds with its snowy head , till we had climbed to the inn at Radicofany built by Ferdd the greate Duke for the necessary re- freshment of ...
... called , Monte Mantumiato , which is of an excessive height ever and anon peep- ing above any clowds with its snowy head , till we had climbed to the inn at Radicofany built by Ferdd the greate Duke for the necessary re- freshment of ...
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... called into Eng- land to settle his affairs , leaving his wife with her parents . This was in the autumn of 1647 , and on his arrival he saw the king at Hampton Court , and gave him an account of several things which he had in charge ...
... called into Eng- land to settle his affairs , leaving his wife with her parents . This was in the autumn of 1647 , and on his arrival he saw the king at Hampton Court , and gave him an account of several things which he had in charge ...
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... called the Procession Oak , ' two fellows struck him from his horse , took away his sword , and dragged him into a thicket a quarter of a mile from the highway , where they robbed him , tied his feet , bound his hands behind him , and ...
... called the Procession Oak , ' two fellows struck him from his horse , took away his sword , and dragged him into a thicket a quarter of a mile from the highway , where they robbed him , tied his feet , bound his hands behind him , and ...
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... called a malignant , his interest in the estate at Deptford , great part of which was held in lease from the crown , had been sequestered , and sold . Evelyn now purchased it , as Charles had authorized him to do , with a promise that ...
... called a malignant , his interest in the estate at Deptford , great part of which was held in lease from the crown , had been sequestered , and sold . Evelyn now purchased it , as Charles had authorized him to do , with a promise that ...
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