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... engaged by military or public business . * It has been always said , that the family migrated to France when Anthony was an infant ; but this is not the fact : " Sir George Hamilton , " says Carte , " would have accompanied his brother ...
... engaged by military or public business . * It has been always said , that the family migrated to France when Anthony was an infant ; but this is not the fact : " Sir George Hamilton , " says Carte , " would have accompanied his brother ...
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... engaged the evening : but much of his time seems to have rolled heavily along ; his sister , Madame de Grammont , living more at court , or in Paris , than always suited his inclinations or his convenience . His great resource at St ...
... engaged the evening : but much of his time seems to have rolled heavily along ; his sister , Madame de Grammont , living more at court , or in Paris , than always suited his inclinations or his convenience . His great resource at St ...
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... engaged in , from his leaving home to his interview with Cardinal Maza- rin ( excepting the character of Monsieur de Senantes , and Matta , who was well known to Hamilton ) , the relation of the siege of Lerida , the description of ...
... engaged in , from his leaving home to his interview with Cardinal Maza- rin ( excepting the character of Monsieur de Senantes , and Matta , who was well known to Hamilton ) , the relation of the siege of Lerida , the description of ...
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... engaged in a very different work : he translated Pope's Essay on Criticism into French , and , as it should seem , so much to that great poet's satisfaction , that he wrote a very polite letter of thanks to him , which is inserted in ...
... engaged in a very different work : he translated Pope's Essay on Criticism into French , and , as it should seem , so much to that great poet's satisfaction , that he wrote a very polite letter of thanks to him , which is inserted in ...
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... engaged his man . The perfidy of Cerise , and the high - crowned hat , were still fresh in remembrance , and enabled him to get the better of a few grains of remorse , and conquer some scruples which arose in his mind . Matta ...
... engaged his man . The perfidy of Cerise , and the high - crowned hat , were still fresh in remembrance , and enabled him to get the better of a few grains of remorse , and conquer some scruples which arose in his mind . Matta ...
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