Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, Volume 169F. Jefferies, 1840 - Early English newspapers |
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... head ; but with the Commissioners a thousand years are as one day , and they have not scrupled to propose that the prelates should be Be- With a vengeance sent From Media post to Egypt . ' The people of Bristol having had half their ...
... head ; but with the Commissioners a thousand years are as one day , and they have not scrupled to propose that the prelates should be Be- With a vengeance sent From Media post to Egypt . ' The people of Bristol having had half their ...
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... head . And she concluded with a compliment finely turned , that , how- ever I might think of the variableness of female tempers , she would answer for it that both Miss More and herself were fixed in an unalterable regard for the Dean ...
... head . And she concluded with a compliment finely turned , that , how- ever I might think of the variableness of female tempers , she would answer for it that both Miss More and herself were fixed in an unalterable regard for the Dean ...
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... head seat of the French colonial government from May 1757 to February 1761 , GENT , MAG . VOL , XIV . during the seven years ' war , when it was numbered among the conquests of England , ) and who left two sons , of whom the younger ...
... head seat of the French colonial government from May 1757 to February 1761 , GENT , MAG . VOL , XIV . during the seven years ' war , when it was numbered among the conquests of England , ) and who left two sons , of whom the younger ...
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... head of the Jacobin Club , eighteen hundred in number , including Robespierre , Brissot , Collot d'Herbois , with many of the future Girondins , the two Merlins , & c . * It was then , I remember , the malignant remark , that he was in ...
... head of the Jacobin Club , eighteen hundred in number , including Robespierre , Brissot , Collot d'Herbois , with many of the future Girondins , the two Merlins , & c . * It was then , I remember , the malignant remark , that he was in ...
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... heads , nor in fact any other entire animals ; a head , or a jamb , or a wing was suffi- ciently weighty for such a situation . The badges , or cognizances , for the arm , were something still smaller and simpler ; a knotted cord , a ...
... heads , nor in fact any other entire animals ; a head , or a jamb , or a wing was suffi- ciently weighty for such a situation . The badges , or cognizances , for the arm , were something still smaller and simpler ; a knotted cord , a ...
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