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... object was to convey to future times , if the work should live so long , a faithful portrait of the event- ful times in which I had lived , and of the many eminent persons whom I had met during a long and varied life . As many of these ...
... object was to convey to future times , if the work should live so long , a faithful portrait of the event- ful times in which I had lived , and of the many eminent persons whom I had met during a long and varied life . As many of these ...
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... object of peculiar and last- ing interest . The emigration , which since 1846 had assumed such gigantic proportions as for the last four years of the period to have amounted to above a million of souls , coupled with the terrible Irish ...
... object of peculiar and last- ing interest . The emigration , which since 1846 had assumed such gigantic proportions as for the last four years of the period to have amounted to above a million of souls , coupled with the terrible Irish ...
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... object of admiration in the fashionable world . Before many years had elapsed she had refused the heirs to three dukedoms . Nine peers were some- times waiting to secure her hand at the conclusion 1852. ] LADY CLEMENTINA VILLIERS . • 21 ...
... object of admiration in the fashionable world . Before many years had elapsed she had refused the heirs to three dukedoms . Nine peers were some- times waiting to secure her hand at the conclusion 1852. ] LADY CLEMENTINA VILLIERS . • 21 ...
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... object of envy or detraction to the less fortunate of her own sex . She was as popular with women as with men ; there was an air of purity and kindness about her which disarmed calumny and stifled jealousy . It was a matter of surprise ...
... object of envy or detraction to the less fortunate of her own sex . She was as popular with women as with men ; there was an air of purity and kindness about her which disarmed calumny and stifled jealousy . It was a matter of surprise ...
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... object , and to be animated but with one desire - that of carrying out in their fullest extent her husband's designs for the improvement of her estates and the welfare of the people . She super- intended everything herself , received ...
... object , and to be animated but with one desire - that of carrying out in their fullest extent her husband's designs for the improvement of her estates and the welfare of the people . She super- intended everything herself , received ...
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Some Account of My Life and Writings: An Autobiography, Volume 2 Archibald Alison Visualização integral - 1883 |
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Página 541 - PEOPLE'S EDITION, 31s. 6d. Life of John Duke of Marlborough. With some Account of his Contemporaries, and of the War of the Succession. Third Edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Portraits and Maps, 30s. Essays : Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous. 3 vols. demy 8vo, 45s. ACROSS FRANCE IN A CARAVAN : BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY FROM BORDEAUX TO GENOA IN THE " ESCARGOT," taken in the Winter 1889-90. By the Author of