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... Scotland , were , it is supposed , natives of Glasgow , and passed their early days in obscurity . Ingenuity and perseverance , however , enabled them to establish a press from which have issued some of the finest specimens of correct ...
... Scotland , were , it is supposed , natives of Glasgow , and passed their early days in obscurity . Ingenuity and perseverance , however , enabled them to establish a press from which have issued some of the finest specimens of correct ...
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... Scotland , the enormous expence of sending pupils to Italy , to study and copy the ancients , gradually brought on their decline in the printing business ; and they found` the city of Glasgow no fit soil to transplant the imitative arts ...
... Scotland , the enormous expence of sending pupils to Italy , to study and copy the ancients , gradually brought on their decline in the printing business ; and they found` the city of Glasgow no fit soil to transplant the imitative arts ...
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... Scotland . ' FOULON or FOULLON ( JOHN ERARD ) , a German divine and historian , was born at Liege , of an ancient and distinguished family , in 1609 ; and in 1625 he entered the order of the Jesuits . His tutors , observing that his ...
... Scotland . ' FOULON or FOULLON ( JOHN ERARD ) , a German divine and historian , was born at Liege , of an ancient and distinguished family , in 1609 ; and in 1625 he entered the order of the Jesuits . His tutors , observing that his ...
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... Scotland , Mr. Fox and dean Nowell at- tended him upon the scaffold . Cecil also obtained for Fox , in 1563 , of the queen a prebend in the church of Salis- bury , though Fox himself would have declined accepting it ; and though he had ...
... Scotland , Mr. Fox and dean Nowell at- tended him upon the scaffold . Cecil also obtained for Fox , in 1563 , of the queen a prebend in the church of Salis- bury , though Fox himself would have declined accepting it ; and though he had ...
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... - hended and described the great persecutions and horrible troubles , that have been wrought and practised by the Romish prelates , speciallye in this realme of England and Scotland , from the year of our Lorde a thousand $ 4 FOX .
... - hended and described the great persecutions and horrible troubles , that have been wrought and practised by the Romish prelates , speciallye in this realme of England and Scotland , from the year of our Lorde a thousand $ 4 FOX .
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