The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 3Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 |
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... Perhaps no prince constructed so many private and public edifices . In almost every city he visited , he erected some memorial of his fame . He travelled into Gaul ; from thence he went to Britain , where he built the famous wall ...
... Perhaps no prince constructed so many private and public edifices . In almost every city he visited , he erected some memorial of his fame . He travelled into Gaul ; from thence he went to Britain , where he built the famous wall ...
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... Perhaps no prince constructed so many private and public edifices . In almost every city he visited , he erected some memorial of his fame . He travelled into Gaul ; from thence he went to Britain , where he built the famous wall ...
... Perhaps no prince constructed so many private and public edifices . In almost every city he visited , he erected some memorial of his fame . He travelled into Gaul ; from thence he went to Britain , where he built the famous wall ...
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... perhaps , for his first wives , if he had allowed himself a greater latitude in this respect and , instead of making them suffer for his own caprice , had sought , among the willing beauties of the court , an occasional relief to his ...
... perhaps , for his first wives , if he had allowed himself a greater latitude in this respect and , instead of making them suffer for his own caprice , had sought , among the willing beauties of the court , an occasional relief to his ...
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... perhaps , might sometimes forget the awful distance which afterwards separated them . The dignity of the King was hurt by these popular manners , and though their novelty , and the grace with which they were accompanied , had pleased ...
... perhaps , might sometimes forget the awful distance which afterwards separated them . The dignity of the King was hurt by these popular manners , and though their novelty , and the grace with which they were accompanied , had pleased ...
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... perhaps , unexampled in a woman , and could not well be the associates of guilt . " Never prince , " says she , in a letter to Henry , “ had a wife more loyal in all duty and affection , than you have found in Anne Boleyn , with which ...
... perhaps , unexampled in a woman , and could not well be the associates of guilt . " Never prince , " says she , in a letter to Henry , “ had a wife more loyal in all duty and affection , than you have found in Anne Boleyn , with which ...
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