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... wife . The family was of French origin , and settled in England on the revocation of the edict of Nantes . The father was a congregationalist minister at Little Baddow from 1799 to 1852. The ministerial calling was widely followed in ...
... wife . The family was of French origin , and settled in England on the revocation of the edict of Nantes . The father was a congregationalist minister at Little Baddow from 1799 to 1852. The ministerial calling was widely followed in ...
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... wife , of which he printed a few copies in his own house , under the disguised title of Ordinale Quotidianum , 1685. Ordo Trigin- talis . ' Of his daughter's education he was particularly careful . From her earliest in- fancy he talked ...
... wife , of which he printed a few copies in his own house , under the disguised title of Ordinale Quotidianum , 1685. Ordo Trigin- talis . ' Of his daughter's education he was particularly careful . From her earliest in- fancy he talked ...
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... wife Elizabeth , who , being a staunch republi- can , objected to her husband turning loyalist . Contemporary with the above was AN- THONY MORGAN ( d . 1665 ) , royalist , son of Sir William Morgan , knt . , of Tredegar , Mon ...
... wife Elizabeth , who , being a staunch republi- can , objected to her husband turning loyalist . Contemporary with the above was AN- THONY MORGAN ( d . 1665 ) , royalist , son of Sir William Morgan , knt . , of Tredegar , Mon ...
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... wife of Luke Ashburner of Bombay , who was a prominent figure in Bombay society ( see BASIL HALL , Voyages and ... Wives , the sinful and criminal character of Adultery , and the difficulties which embarrass the Principle and Practice of ...
... wife of Luke Ashburner of Bombay , who was a prominent figure in Bombay society ( see BASIL HALL , Voyages and ... Wives , the sinful and criminal character of Adultery , and the difficulties which embarrass the Principle and Practice of ...
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... wife ' for life , and after her death to Charles , son of Colonel Robert Byndlos or Bundless and of Anna Petronella , his wife's eldest sister , conditionally on his taking the name of Morgan . 6 [ Exquemeling's Buccaneers of America ...
... wife ' for life , and after her death to Charles , son of Colonel Robert Byndlos or Bundless and of Anna Petronella , his wife's eldest sister , conditionally on his taking the name of Morgan . 6 [ Exquemeling's Buccaneers of America ...
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ADAM OF USK afterwards appeared appointed April Atholl baron Baronage became bishop born Brit British British Museum brother buried Captain Castle Charles church College Cornwall council Covent Garden daugh daughter death Dict died Dublin Duke duke of Atholl Earl Edinburgh edit Edward Edward II eldest elected England English engraved estates EVESHAM father Fœdera France French Gent George graduated B.A. Henry Herefordshire Hist Ireland Irish James July June king king's Lady land Letters London Lord March married Memoirs ment Morgan Morley Morris Mortimer Morton Mowbray Mudge Murray Musgrave Myddelton Norfolk Oxford Papers Parl parliament Paston Letters portrait Prince printed Privy Council published returned Richard Richard III Robert Roger Royal Scotland Scots sent Sept Shropshire Sir John Society Thomas tion took translated Wales Welsh wife William William Mudge wrote
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Seite 159 - Verse, as may renew the wonted honour and esteem of our English tongue ; and it's the worth of these both English and Latin Poems, not the flourish of any prefixed...
Seite 60 - He showed us his invention of writing, which was very ingenious ; also his wooden kalendar, which instructed him all by feeling ; and other pretty and useful inventions of mills, pumps, &c., and the pump he had erected that serves water to his garden, and to passengers, with an inscription, and brings from a filthy part of the Thames near it a most perfect and pure water.
Seite 282 - There is one face of Farley, one face of Knight, one (but what a one it is!) of Listen; but Munden has none that you can properly pin down, and call his. When you think he has exhausted his battery of looks, in unaccountable warfare with your gravity, suddenly he sprouts out an entirely new set of features, like Hydra. He is not one, but legion. Not so much a comedian, as a company.
Seite 269 - The ordinary means therefore to increase our wealth and treasure is by Foreign Trade, wherein we must ever observe this rule; to sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs in value.
Seite 340 - Had Prince Charles slept during the whole of the expedition, and allowed Lord George Murray to act for him according to his own judgment, there is every reason for supposing he would have found the crown of Great Britain on his head when he awoke.
Seite 397 - Thistle, The; a dispassionate examine of the prejudice of Englishmen in general to the Scotch nation; and particularly of a late arrogant insult offered to all Scotchmen by a modern English journalist.
Seite 357 - If you have any humanity, pray send clothing for your unfortunate prisoners in my possession. Leave it at a distance to be taken up for them, because I will admit of no contact for the future, but such as is hostile...
Seite 278 - The strangest Adventure that ever happened : either in the ages passed or present. Containing a discourse concerning the successe of the King of Portugall, Dom Sebastian, from the time of his voyage into Affricke, when he was lost in the battell against the infidels in the yeare 1578, unto the sixt of January this present 1601.
Seite 135 - ... men for affairs. He spoke both gracefully and weightily; he was eminently skilled in the law, had a vast understanding, and a prodigious memory; and those excellent talents with which Nature had furnished him, were improved by study and experience.
Seite 32 - Johnson being asked his opinion of this Essay, answered, " Why, Sir, we shall have the man come forth again ; and as he has proved FalstafF to be no coward, he may prove lago to be a very good character.