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Page 129
... tempers , and to wish that gentle remedies might be applied , talked now in another dialect both of kings . and persons ; and said that they must now be of another temper than they were the last Parliament . " The debt of vengeance was ...
... tempers , and to wish that gentle remedies might be applied , talked now in another dialect both of kings . and persons ; and said that they must now be of another temper than they were the last Parliament . " The debt of vengeance was ...
Page 433
... temper , his contempt for appearances , led him to display much that others , quite as unscrupulous as himself , covered with a decent veil . He was the most unpopular of the statesmen of his time , not because he sinned more than many ...
... temper , his contempt for appearances , led him to display much that others , quite as unscrupulous as himself , covered with a decent veil . He was the most unpopular of the statesmen of his time , not because he sinned more than many ...
Page 481
... temper such a fierceness and imperiousness , that he flies out on every trifling occasion . " The old people of the neighbourhood still remember to have heard from their parents how Bob Clive climbed to the top of the lofty steeple of ...
... temper such a fierceness and imperiousness , that he flies out on every trifling occasion . " The old people of the neighbourhood still remember to have heard from their parents how Bob Clive climbed to the top of the lofty steeple of ...
Contents
HALLAMS HISTORY | 3 |
RANKES HISTORY OF THE POPES | 31 |
INDEX | 38 |
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