Dictionary of National Biography, Volumen4Leslie Stephen Macmillan, 1885 |
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... seems to have been obliged to quit England at some date during Queen Mary's reign , and not to have returned until ... seem to have sometimes carried him into Germany . Ap- parently , Walsingham found him in Paris on his appointment as ...
... seems to have been obliged to quit England at some date during Queen Mary's reign , and not to have returned until ... seem to have sometimes carried him into Germany . Ap- parently , Walsingham found him in Paris on his appointment as ...
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... seems to have contrived to delude him with the idea that she had really given up ambition , and was desirous only to live a retired life for the rest of her days . This appears from the tone of a letter to Walsingham , written in the ...
... seems to have contrived to delude him with the idea that she had really given up ambition , and was desirous only to live a retired life for the rest of her days . This appears from the tone of a letter to Walsingham , written in the ...
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... seems to have been a Mary Heriman , and to have been married 9 July 1628. Brayley ( in his Beauties of England and Wales , vii . 354 ) gives the inscription on a brass in the nave of All Saints Church , Huntingdon , to Dr. Beard's ...
... seems to have been a Mary Heriman , and to have been married 9 July 1628. Brayley ( in his Beauties of England and Wales , vii . 354 ) gives the inscription on a brass in the nave of All Saints Church , Huntingdon , to Dr. Beard's ...
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... seems to have betaken himself to practical agriculture in his native county , his writings on the subject being such as could have scarcely emanated from any one not a practical agriculturist . He became an honorary member of the Board ...
... seems to have betaken himself to practical agriculture in his native county , his writings on the subject being such as could have scarcely emanated from any one not a practical agriculturist . He became an honorary member of the Board ...
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... seems to have been the great stay of the poet's declining years . On hear- ing of Campbell's illness in 1844 , Beattie hastened to his bedside at Boulogne , and never left him again until all was over . Campbell's cherished wish to find ...
... seems to have been the great stay of the poet's declining years . On hear- ing of Campbell's illness in 1844 , Beattie hastened to his bedside at Boulogne , and never left him again until all was over . Campbell's cherished wish to find ...
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