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... taken ; but , while I saw how lavish he was upon his dirty * , I had frequent accounts , that my mother was half - starved abroad . She brought him £ 16,000 fortune , and , having borne severe usage for near 20 years , had resolution ...
... taken ; but , while I saw how lavish he was upon his dirty * , I had frequent accounts , that my mother was half - starved abroad . She brought him £ 16,000 fortune , and , having borne severe usage for near 20 years , had resolution ...
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... taken part in the contest , amongst the veteran soldiery and the Cilician undertakers , who had advanced money for the war against Pythagoras I. 12. Atillas , the General of the rebel forces , having dismissed the Senate , after some ...
... taken part in the contest , amongst the veteran soldiery and the Cilician undertakers , who had advanced money for the war against Pythagoras I. 12. Atillas , the General of the rebel forces , having dismissed the Senate , after some ...
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... taken deep root , and occu- pied the place of the discarded truth . 15. But Amasis took quiet possession of his kingdom without oppo- James II . sition , and with every accustomed ceremony and state , whilst his Cili- English . cian and ...
... taken deep root , and occu- pied the place of the discarded truth . 15. But Amasis took quiet possession of his kingdom without oppo- James II . sition , and with every accustomed ceremony and state , whilst his Cili- English . cian and ...
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... taken Prisoner , and carryed all bloody into Tyrrhia , where he lay long under Cure ; but , before he was fully recovered of his Wounds , he made his Escape after a strange and wounderfull Manner , to the universall Joy Irish . of all ...
... taken Prisoner , and carryed all bloody into Tyrrhia , where he lay long under Cure ; but , before he was fully recovered of his Wounds , he made his Escape after a strange and wounderfull Manner , to the universall Joy Irish . of all ...
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... taken , to perfect theire close Project ; for Asinio was soon gained to be of theire Opinion , tho ' we may rationally suppose that the Bottom of the Design was not discovered to him , for it was soe much against the Interest of the ...
... taken , to perfect theire close Project ; for Asinio was soon gained to be of theire Opinion , tho ' we may rationally suppose that the Bottom of the Design was not discovered to him , for it was soe much against the Interest of the ...
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Page 224 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men.
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Page 228 - Two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians through the country from sea to sea. Very often they seize the wives and daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before the great chieftain's face.
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Page 224 - I cannot, and 1 may not tell of all the wounds and all the tortures that they inflicted upon the wretched men of this land ; and this state of things lasted the nineteen years that Stephen was king, and ever grew worse and worse.