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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... letters of Henry's own and from authentic correspondence of the members of his council , that at no time after his accession , not even when he was a mere boy , was the king less than his own first mi- nister . His very coronation oath ...
... letters of Henry's own and from authentic correspondence of the members of his council , that at no time after his accession , not even when he was a mere boy , was the king less than his own first mi- nister . His very coronation oath ...
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... letter as the following to Cromwell : - : - " I perceive , " the letter runs , " that there is a supposed precontract between the queen and me , whereupon I was not only heretofore examined upon mine oath before the Archbishops of Can ...
... letter as the following to Cromwell : - : - " I perceive , " the letter runs , " that there is a supposed precontract between the queen and me , whereupon I was not only heretofore examined upon mine oath before the Archbishops of Can ...
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... letters of the Bishop of Bayonne , which furnish almost a second register of the pro- ceedings from day to day , no doubt can re- main that Burnet is right . Nevertheless , if we compare | true and were not . The queen behaved like ...
... letters of the Bishop of Bayonne , which furnish almost a second register of the pro- ceedings from day to day , no doubt can re- main that Burnet is right . Nevertheless , if we compare | true and were not . The queen behaved like ...
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... letter to Wolsey himself from the English ambassador , where the general attitude of the different parties , the causes ... letters ex- tant from him to his agent in Rome , direct- ing the manner in which the canvass should be conducted ...
... letter to Wolsey himself from the English ambassador , where the general attitude of the different parties , the causes ... letters ex- tant from him to his agent in Rome , direct- ing the manner in which the canvass should be conducted ...
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... letters , expressing an apparent unwillingness , have long been known ; and shallow - brained his torians have interpreted them as a young lady's verbal refusal of a proposal , or a bishop's " nolo episcopari . " It is a mis- It is a ...
... letters , expressing an apparent unwillingness , have long been known ; and shallow - brained his torians have interpreted them as a young lady's verbal refusal of a proposal , or a bishop's " nolo episcopari . " It is a mis- It is a ...
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