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pretend without them to see , and shew us what they are doing in the Moon . YET , I will allow such high speculations are pretty subjects for our thoughts and fancies , and to improve them also ; as boys throwing stones at birds ...
pretend without them to see , and shew us what they are doing in the Moon . YET , I will allow such high speculations are pretty subjects for our thoughts and fancies , and to improve them also ; as boys throwing stones at birds ...
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... that whosoever is mischievous enough to be found guilty of such ill designs , will , to his cost , find the Judges as mischievous in stretching the law against him ; tho ' all the while they pretend to be of his Council . 4.
... that whosoever is mischievous enough to be found guilty of such ill designs , will , to his cost , find the Judges as mischievous in stretching the law against him ; tho ' all the while they pretend to be of his Council . 4.
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... did so frighten all the women , that he was forc'd to be contented with a widow at last ; because others were afraid he might pretend to miss a maiden - head , and so cut off a wife's head , as soon as he grew weary of her .
... did so frighten all the women , that he was forc'd to be contented with a widow at last ; because others were afraid he might pretend to miss a maiden - head , and so cut off a wife's head , as soon as he grew weary of her .
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A SHORT LIFE OF THE DUKE | 11 |
Loves SLAVERY AND OTHER POEMS page | 27 |
ON FRIENDSHIP page | 65 |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Miscellanea from the Works of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham The Courtier's library |
| Autor/in | John Sheffield Duke of Buckingham |
| Verlag | Haworth Press, 1933 |
| Länge | 120 Seiten |
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