Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Том 33John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1854 |
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... admiration ; and a certain uniformity of failure , like that which marks the career of Mary Queen of Scots , alone commands a general interest . It is not enough to have died tragically ; the wise and the unwise came too often to a ...
... admiration ; and a certain uniformity of failure , like that which marks the career of Mary Queen of Scots , alone commands a general interest . It is not enough to have died tragically ; the wise and the unwise came too often to a ...
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... admiration . But the prudent vigor of a powerful statesman was not a virtue which would recommend itself to an age which was agitated by the collision of two parties equally unreasoning : like only recognizes like , and for the years ...
... admiration . But the prudent vigor of a powerful statesman was not a virtue which would recommend itself to an age which was agitated by the collision of two parties equally unreasoning : like only recognizes like , and for the years ...
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... admirable government of Henry and his own noble qualities had been re- warded by the attached loyalty of the people . The Duke of Buckingham had conspired against him at home , and Richard de la Pole had for twenty years intrigued ...
... admirable government of Henry and his own noble qualities had been re- warded by the attached loyalty of the people . The Duke of Buckingham had conspired against him at home , and Richard de la Pole had for twenty years intrigued ...
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... admiration and the gratitude of the Catholic world . Yet we can neither be surprised at her refusal , nor can we blame her for it . She was a right noble woman ; but her nobleness was of the Spanish , not the English kind . Proud ...
... admiration and the gratitude of the Catholic world . Yet we can neither be surprised at her refusal , nor can we blame her for it . She was a right noble woman ; but her nobleness was of the Spanish , not the English kind . Proud ...
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... persons showed to- wards him at this trying time , called out the involuntary admiration of all parties ; and six weeks after , the Duke of Norfolk was sent down to Esher , to declare to them , in 22 [ Sept. , CARDINAL WOLSEY .
... persons showed to- wards him at this trying time , called out the involuntary admiration of all parties ; and six weeks after , the Duke of Norfolk was sent down to Esher , to declare to them , in 22 [ Sept. , CARDINAL WOLSEY .
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