The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Том 5Published for the proprietors, 1836 |
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... person who furnished me with the memorials , from which I have compiled the present history , and who was himself much more capable to have done it , even in the French lan- guage , had not his great modesty determined him to resign the ...
... person who furnished me with the memorials , from which I have compiled the present history , and who was himself much more capable to have done it , even in the French lan- guage , had not his great modesty determined him to resign the ...
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... person in the neighbourhood of Archangel , named Anika , one tolerably rich for his condition of life and country , took notice , that certain men of an extraordinary figure , and dressed in a manner unknown to that country , and who ...
... person in the neighbourhood of Archangel , named Anika , one tolerably rich for his condition of life and country , took notice , that certain men of an extraordinary figure , and dressed in a manner unknown to that country , and who ...
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... persons liable to the poll - tax , the clergy have one ; but , nevertheless , they are far from possessing the seventh part of the whole revenues of the state , as is the case in many other kingdoms , where they have at least a seventh ...
... persons liable to the poll - tax , the clergy have one ; but , nevertheless , they are far from possessing the seventh part of the whole revenues of the state , as is the case in many other kingdoms , where they have at least a seventh ...
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... person to baptize Wolodomer , in order to add this part of the world to the patriarchal see . Wolodimer , or Wolodomar , therefore completed the work which his grandmother had begun . A Greek was made the first metropolitan , or ...
... person to baptize Wolodomer , in order to add this part of the world to the patriarchal see . Wolodimer , or Wolodomar , therefore completed the work which his grandmother had begun . A Greek was made the first metropolitan , or ...
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... persons they had murdered , as being traitors to their country : and to crown all , she published letters patent ... person , and sullied only by her ambi- tion . She She procured a wife for her brother John , in the manner already ...
... persons they had murdered , as being traitors to their country : and to crown all , she published letters patent ... person , and sullied only by her ambi- tion . She She procured a wife for her brother John , in the manner already ...
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