The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those ProvincesWhittaker and Company; Simpkin, Marshall, and Company; John Cross, Leeds; Bancks and Company Manchester; Grapel, Liverpool., 1836 - Lancashire (England) - 732 pages |
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Page 42
... true . " One Blood , outlawed for an attempt to take Dublin Castle , and who seized on the Duke of Ormond here last year , and might have killed him , a most bold , and yet sober fellow , some months ago seized the crown and sceptre in ...
... true . " One Blood , outlawed for an attempt to take Dublin Castle , and who seized on the Duke of Ormond here last year , and might have killed him , a most bold , and yet sober fellow , some months ago seized the crown and sceptre in ...
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... true lover . Parker might , however , have a true antipathy to the dissenters , for his father was one of Cromwell's saints . Nothing prejudices the mind so strongly against religion in general , or any form of religion in particular ...
... true lover . Parker might , however , have a true antipathy to the dissenters , for his father was one of Cromwell's saints . Nothing prejudices the mind so strongly against religion in general , or any form of religion in particular ...
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... true author of The Ecclesiastical Polity . ' I believe he imitated the wisdom of some other Princes , who have sometimes been persuaded by their servants to disguise several others in the regal garb , that the enemy might not know in ...
... true author of The Ecclesiastical Polity . ' I believe he imitated the wisdom of some other Princes , who have sometimes been persuaded by their servants to disguise several others in the regal garb , that the enemy might not know in ...
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... assailed by a plain priest , for over - toleration , and defended by a Calvinistic layman . Dr. Herbert Croft , Bishop of Hereford , had published a book called the " Naked Truth , or the true state of ANDREW MARVELL . 53.
... assailed by a plain priest , for over - toleration , and defended by a Calvinistic layman . Dr. Herbert Croft , Bishop of Hereford , had published a book called the " Naked Truth , or the true state of ANDREW MARVELL . 53.
Page 55
... true jests are those that do the greatest execution . And lastly , it were not amiss that they gave some account , too , of their Christianity ; for the world has hitherto been so uncivil as to expect something of that from the clergy ...
... true jests are those that do the greatest execution . And lastly , it were not amiss that they gave some account , too , of their Christianity ; for the world has hitherto been so uncivil as to expect something of that from the clergy ...
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