Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... unless the reverend bishop could warrant them there was no foul play . What could be more impious than to debar the children of the king from their right to the crown ? To comply with the ambitious usurpa- tion of a traitor , and to ...
... unless the reverend bishop could warrant them there was no foul play . What could be more impious than to debar the children of the king from their right to the crown ? To comply with the ambitious usurpa- tion of a traitor , and to ...
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... unless she can bring a ticket from Cranmer , Latimer , and Ridley ; or prove herself a re- tainer to Constantine , and wear his badge . More toler- able it were for the church of God , that all these names were utterly abolished like ...
... unless she can bring a ticket from Cranmer , Latimer , and Ridley ; or prove herself a re- tainer to Constantine , and wear his badge . More toler- able it were for the church of God , that all these names were utterly abolished like ...
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... unless the poor threadbare matron were put into better clothes : her chaste and modest vail , surrounded with celestial beams , they overlaid with wanton tresses , and in a flaring tire bespeckled her with all the gaudy allurements of a ...
... unless the poor threadbare matron were put into better clothes : her chaste and modest vail , surrounded with celestial beams , they overlaid with wanton tresses , and in a flaring tire bespeckled her with all the gaudy allurements of a ...
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... unless when they hu- moured him ; so that it may be truly affirmed , he was the subversion and fall of that monarchy , which was the hoisting of him . This , besides Petrarch , whom I have cited , our Chaucer also hath observed , and ...
... unless when they hu- moured him ; so that it may be truly affirmed , he was the subversion and fall of that monarchy , which was the hoisting of him . This , besides Petrarch , whom I have cited , our Chaucer also hath observed , and ...
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... unless they would rouse us up to a war fit for Cain to be the leader of ; an abhorred , a cursed , a fraternal war . England and Scotland , dearest brothers both in nature and in Christ , must be set to wade in one another's blood ; and ...
... unless they would rouse us up to a war fit for Cain to be the leader of ; an abhorred , a cursed , a fraternal war . England and Scotland , dearest brothers both in nature and in Christ , must be set to wade in one another's blood ; and ...
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