Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest. By A. [and E.] Strickland, Том 91846 |
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... QUEENS OF ENGLAND ARE BY GRACIOUS PERMISSION INSCRIBED , WITH FEELINGS OF PROFOUND RESPECT AND LOYAL AFFECTION , BY HER MAJESTY'S FAITHFUL SUBJECT AND DEVOTED SERVANT , AGNES STRICKLAND . PREFACE . SOME indulgence , it is hoped , will.
... QUEENS OF ENGLAND ARE BY GRACIOUS PERMISSION INSCRIBED , WITH FEELINGS OF PROFOUND RESPECT AND LOYAL AFFECTION , BY HER MAJESTY'S FAITHFUL SUBJECT AND DEVOTED SERVANT , AGNES STRICKLAND . PREFACE . SOME indulgence , it is hoped , will.
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... feelings were subdued by a long acquaintance with adversity and the fever of disappointed hope . The present volume brings her biography down to the period of her widowhood . The events of the last sixteen years of her life will be ...
... feelings were subdued by a long acquaintance with adversity and the fever of disappointed hope . The present volume brings her biography down to the period of her widowhood . The events of the last sixteen years of her life will be ...
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... feelings without emotion . Some of the letters have been literally steeped in the tears of the royal writer , especially those which she wrote after the battle of la Hogue , during the absence of king James , when she was in hourly ...
... feelings without emotion . Some of the letters have been literally steeped in the tears of the royal writer , especially those which she wrote after the battle of la Hogue , during the absence of king James , when she was in hourly ...
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... feeling in the sym- pathy which he was the first to accord to that unfortunate family . He did more ; he checked the hackneyed system of basing modern history on the abuse of James II . and his family , by authorizing the publication of ...
... feeling in the sym- pathy which he was the first to accord to that unfortunate family . He did more ; he checked the hackneyed system of basing modern history on the abuse of James II . and his family , by authorizing the publication of ...
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... feelings were subdued by a long acquaintance with adversity and the fever of disappointed hope . The present volume brings her biography down to the period of her widowhood . The events of the last sixteen years of her life will be ...
... feelings were subdued by a long acquaintance with adversity and the fever of disappointed hope . The present volume brings her biography down to the period of her widowhood . The events of the last sixteen years of her life will be ...
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