Memoirs of the Duke of Marlborough: With His Original Correspondence, Collected from the Family Records at Blenheim and Other Authentic Sources, Volume 2Bell & Daldy, 1872 |
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... never leave my service , for Jesus Christ's sake ; for besides the reasons I give you in another letter , this is a blow I cannot bear . " * Convinced from this declaration that farther arguments would be fruitless , Godolphin recurred ...
... never leave my service , for Jesus Christ's sake ; for besides the reasons I give you in another letter , this is a blow I cannot bear . " * Convinced from this declaration that farther arguments would be fruitless , Godolphin recurred ...
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... never serve more . For I have had the good luck to deserve better from all Englishmen , than to be suspected of not being in the true interest of my country , which I am in , and ever will be , without being of a faction ; and this ...
... never serve more . For I have had the good luck to deserve better from all Englishmen , than to be suspected of not being in the true interest of my country , which I am in , and ever will be , without being of a faction ; and this ...
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... never will be a friend to any that can be his enemy . " I have writ my mind very freely to the queen on this occasion , so that whatever misfortune may happen , I shall have a quiet mind , having done what I thought my duty . And as for ...
... never will be a friend to any that can be his enemy . " I have writ my mind very freely to the queen on this occasion , so that whatever misfortune may happen , I shall have a quiet mind , having done what I thought my duty . And as for ...
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... never look upon it otherwise . As to my other difficulties concerning Lord Sunderland , I do fear , for the reasons I have told you , we shall never agree long together ; and the making him secretary , I can't help thinking , is ...
... never look upon it otherwise . As to my other difficulties concerning Lord Sunderland , I do fear , for the reasons I have told you , we shall never agree long together ; and the making him secretary , I can't help thinking , is ...
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... never had such a thought , nor ever can have , for my own sake or ease , if I saw a possibility of supporting your ser- vice , to which , as I have often said to your majesty , I must be a weight . and not a help , unless you would ...
... never had such a thought , nor ever can have , for my own sake or ease , if I saw a possibility of supporting your ser- vice , to which , as I have often said to your majesty , I must be a weight . and not a help , unless you would ...
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