The North American Review, Volume 97Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1863 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... course , not transmissible by descent . The title of Lord is now used almost universally for the fifth order of the peerage , instead of Baron . Marquesses and earls are frequently called simply Lords ; and sometimes , but now very ...
... course , not transmissible by descent . The title of Lord is now used almost universally for the fifth order of the peerage , instead of Baron . Marquesses and earls are frequently called simply Lords ; and sometimes , but now very ...
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... course , he proved himself hardly worthy of his gallant race . Josceline , the eleventh and last Earl of Northumberland , and the last of the legit- imate male line of the Percys , died in 1670 , and the title became extinct . His vast ...
... course , he proved himself hardly worthy of his gallant race . Josceline , the eleventh and last Earl of Northumberland , and the last of the legit- imate male line of the Percys , died in 1670 , and the title became extinct . His vast ...
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... course of his vagrant amours , was for a moment attracted by the Countess of Shrewsbury . She was easily won . Her lord challenged the gallant , and fell . Some said the abandoned woman witnessed the combat in man's attire , and others ...
... course of his vagrant amours , was for a moment attracted by the Countess of Shrewsbury . She was easily won . Her lord challenged the gallant , and fell . Some said the abandoned woman witnessed the combat in man's attire , and others ...
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... course of other investigations , discovered that in the patent of this earldom of Devon the limiting words " heirs male of his body " had been omitted , so that the honor was granted to the use in any way the arms of a female ancestor ...
... course of other investigations , discovered that in the patent of this earldom of Devon the limiting words " heirs male of his body " had been omitted , so that the honor was granted to the use in any way the arms of a female ancestor ...
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... course of his profes- sional investigations . All of these are interesting , and some of them intensely so , rivalling the strangest tales of romance . Had we room , we could extract many heart - rending accounts of the decline and fall ...
... course of his profes- sional investigations . All of these are interesting , and some of them intensely so , rivalling the strangest tales of romance . Had we room , we could extract many heart - rending accounts of the decline and fall ...
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