The Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900, Том 1

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Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee
Oxford University Press, 1908

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Сторінка 222 - As the natural head of her family, superintendent of her household, manager of her private affairs, sole confidential adviser in politics, and only assistant in her communications with the officers of the Government, he is, besides the husband of the Queen, the tutor of the Royal children, the private secretary of the Sovereign, and her permanent minister.
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Сторінка 128 - Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.
Сторінка 165 - A Testimonie of Antiquitie, shewing the auncient fayth in the Church of England touching the Sacrament of the body and bloude of the Lord, here publikely preached, and also receaued in the Saxons' tyme, aboue 600 yeares agoe. Imprinted at London by John Day, dwelling oner Alderagate beneath S.

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