The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 3Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... the inhabitants to the very centre of his dominions , Abas had a double motive . The Turks , with whom he was frequently at war , never failed falling upon Armenia , where they found ample subsistence . The depopulation of this.
... the inhabitants to the very centre of his dominions , Abas had a double motive . The Turks , with whom he was frequently at war , never failed falling upon Armenia , where they found ample subsistence . The depopulation of this.
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... never should . He then entered into some explanations , which strongly marked his disgust and aversion . He even suspected her deficiency in a point upon which he always expressed the nicest delicacy . He , however , continued to be ...
... never should . He then entered into some explanations , which strongly marked his disgust and aversion . He even suspected her deficiency in a point upon which he always expressed the nicest delicacy . He , however , continued to be ...
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... never possessed her heart ; and had declared to each of her supposed paramours , that she loved him better than Henry , which was to the slander of the issue begotten between the King and her . By this strained interpretation , her ...
... never possessed her heart ; and had declared to each of her supposed paramours , that she loved him better than Henry , which was to the slander of the issue begotten between the King and her . By this strained interpretation , her ...
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... Never prince , " says she , in a letter to Henry , " had a wife more loyal in all duty and affection , than you have found in Anne Boleyn , with which name and place I could willingly have contented myself , if God and your Grace had ...
... Never prince , " says she , in a letter to Henry , " had a wife more loyal in all duty and affection , than you have found in Anne Boleyn , with which name and place I could willingly have contented myself , if God and your Grace had ...
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... never- theless , desirous that he should courageously assert his birth - right , and several of his subjects did not scruple to urge him to it . Too crafty to employ violence , Vascon- cellos had recourse to measures to secure the ...
... never- theless , desirous that he should courageously assert his birth - right , and several of his subjects did not scruple to urge him to it . Too crafty to employ violence , Vascon- cellos had recourse to measures to secure the ...
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