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... lived in the best company , and had realised an income of a thousand a year . His Lectures - I can answer for it were first - rate ( I am sorry I did not beg one on the Monastic Orders , or Gustavus Adol- phus , to print in my Volume ) ...
... lived in the best company , and had realised an income of a thousand a year . His Lectures - I can answer for it were first - rate ( I am sorry I did not beg one on the Monastic Orders , or Gustavus Adol- phus , to print in my Volume ) ...
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... lived in a house in Bucklersbury , in great contentment and peace . He now set to work in good earnest at his profession , and rose rapidly at the bar ; he also undertook the office of un- der - sheriff of London , which at that time ...
... lived in a house in Bucklersbury , in great contentment and peace . He now set to work in good earnest at his profession , and rose rapidly at the bar ; he also undertook the office of un- der - sheriff of London , which at that time ...
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... lived in a small house in Bucklersbury , which is a narrow street running out of the Poultry ; but he now removed to Chelsea , at that time a country village , though now a mere suburb of London . Here he took into evidently he had His ...
... lived in a small house in Bucklersbury , which is a narrow street running out of the Poultry ; but he now removed to Chelsea , at that time a country village , though now a mere suburb of London . Here he took into evidently he had His ...
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... lived a great deal with them , says that " No husband ever gained so much obedience from a wife by authority and severity , as More by gentleness and pleasantry . Though verging on old age , and not of a yielding temper , he prevailed ...
... lived a great deal with them , says that " No husband ever gained so much obedience from a wife by authority and severity , as More by gentleness and pleasantry . Though verging on old age , and not of a yielding temper , he prevailed ...
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... lived . So lived , so died , Sir Thomas More . His career was illustrated by almost every virtue that makes a man worthy of our respect or our love . He was humane , he was affectionate , he was tender , he was modest , he was wise , he ...
... lived . So lived , so died , Sir Thomas More . His career was illustrated by almost every virtue that makes a man worthy of our respect or our love . He was humane , he was affectionate , he was tender , he was modest , he was wise , he ...
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