The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian MagazineBaldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1827 |
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... readers , of Collections of Letters illustrative of English History , we have been influenced much more by its being comparatively unknown , even by those whose studies would render them the most likely to be ac- quainted with it , than ...
... readers , of Collections of Letters illustrative of English History , we have been influenced much more by its being comparatively unknown , even by those whose studies would render them the most likely to be ac- quainted with it , than ...
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... readers ' time to dilate . They are highly estimated by all who understand their value : but they are so numerous , and , generally speaking , embrace such various periods of English history , that we flatter ourselves we shall perform ...
... readers ' time to dilate . They are highly estimated by all who understand their value : but they are so numerous , and , generally speaking , embrace such various periods of English history , that we flatter ourselves we shall perform ...
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... readers and to ourselves , to convey even an idea of its contents , excepting what may be gleaned from the fol- lowing slight account of the principal subjects . With the ex- ception of an " Epistle from Eleutherius Bishop of Rome , to ...
... readers and to ourselves , to convey even an idea of its contents , excepting what may be gleaned from the fol- lowing slight account of the principal subjects . With the ex- ception of an " Epistle from Eleutherius Bishop of Rome , to ...
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... reader ; the very pages partake of the disorder which characterizes every other part : thus , according to our copy ... readers . Not a note of the least value is to be found throughout the work , whilst of those which occur the only ...
... reader ; the very pages partake of the disorder which characterizes every other part : thus , according to our copy ... readers . Not a note of the least value is to be found throughout the work , whilst of those which occur the only ...
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... readers , for it presents a very affecting picture of the destitution to which that great man was reduced . It was evi- dently written about 1533 , and the purport was to ask whether she might approach the king , because , from the fear ...
... readers , for it presents a very affecting picture of the destitution to which that great man was reduced . It was evi- dently written about 1533 , and the purport was to ask whether she might approach the king , because , from the fear ...
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