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... Castle when it was besieged by the Roundheads of the Parliamentary army . This gentleman's grandson , Sir George Lyttelton - who had been successively M.P. for Okehampton , secretary to George , Prince of Wales , and a Commissioner of ...
... Castle when it was besieged by the Roundheads of the Parliamentary army . This gentleman's grandson , Sir George Lyttelton - who had been successively M.P. for Okehampton , secretary to George , Prince of Wales , and a Commissioner of ...
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... castle of Carlisle in the reign of Henry VIII . , who , by the aid of his neighbour Sir William Musgrave and a force of only 300 men , gallantly routed a large body of Scottish invaders , and took prisoners the Earl of Cassilis and the ...
... castle of Carlisle in the reign of Henry VIII . , who , by the aid of his neighbour Sir William Musgrave and a force of only 300 men , gallantly routed a large body of Scottish invaders , and took prisoners the Earl of Cassilis and the ...
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... Castle . After the Restoration the fortunes of the family were gradually retrieved by careful and judicious management , and Costessy once more took rank among the fine mansions of Norfolk . The Jer- ninghams , however , did not appear ...
... Castle . After the Restoration the fortunes of the family were gradually retrieved by careful and judicious management , and Costessy once more took rank among the fine mansions of Norfolk . The Jer- ninghams , however , did not appear ...
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... castles , two * Aubigny is a town in Berry , in France , situate on the river Nere , given ( according to Père Daniel ) on March 24th , 1422 , to John Stuart , the third Lord Darnley of that name , to whom the County and Earldom of ...
... castles , two * Aubigny is a town in Berry , in France , situate on the river Nere , given ( according to Père Daniel ) on March 24th , 1422 , to John Stuart , the third Lord Darnley of that name , to whom the County and Earldom of ...
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... castle of Aubigny , fiefs , and lands , & c . , into a Duchy and Peerdom of France , " by the name , title , and dignity of Dukes of Aubigny and Peers of France . * His Majesty King Charles , considering with what lustre and glory the ...
... castle of Aubigny , fiefs , and lands , & c . , into a Duchy and Peerdom of France , " by the name , title , and dignity of Dukes of Aubigny and Peers of France . * His Majesty King Charles , considering with what lustre and glory the ...
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Página 226 - Oh blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Página 247 - After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his wife, the good earl thus speaks from the tomb: "What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Página 26 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Página 108 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage.
Página 27 - His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty, which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refined...
Página 51 - Scotland can witness be I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...