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... eminent person , eminent not only for his piety and his fervid devotional eloquence , but for his moderation , his knowledge of political affairs , and his skill in judging of characters , declared in the Saint's Rest , that one of the ...
... eminent person , eminent not only for his piety and his fervid devotional eloquence , but for his moderation , his knowledge of political affairs , and his skill in judging of characters , declared in the Saint's Rest , that one of the ...
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... eminent persons who con- curred in it , and in justice more particularly to the eminent person who defended it , that nothing can be more absurd than the imputations which , for the last hundred and sixty years , it has been the fashion ...
... eminent persons who con- curred in it , and in justice more particularly to the eminent person who defended it , that nothing can be more absurd than the imputations which , for the last hundred and sixty years , it has been the fashion ...
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... eminence merely to the favour of the sovereign . On the contrary , they owed the favour of the sovereign to their ... eminent orators , financiers , diplomatists . From a private gentleman , this fortun- ate minion had at once been ...
... eminence merely to the favour of the sovereign . On the contrary , they owed the favour of the sovereign to their ... eminent orators , financiers , diplomatists . From a private gentleman , this fortun- ate minion had at once been ...
Contents
HALLAMS HISTORY | 3 |
RANKES HISTORY OF THE POPES | 31 |
INDEX | 38 |
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