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... head - dress - Plague of country . Jenyns Cousins Proposals to eat healths Unknown - 165. Follies of our ancestors , and prudence of modern times the old Eng- lishman and the modern Englishman 166. On honour and honesty 167. The game of ...
... head - dress - Plague of country . Jenyns Cousins Proposals to eat healths Unknown - 165. Follies of our ancestors , and prudence of modern times the old Eng- lishman and the modern Englishman 166. On honour and honesty 167. The game of ...
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... head . I have long been of opinion , that as the princi- pal virtue of a man is courage , so the principal virtue of a woman is silence : my wife , indeed , is of a con- trary way of thinking , with regard to this female virtue but till ...
... head . I have long been of opinion , that as the princi- pal virtue of a man is courage , so the principal virtue of a woman is silence : my wife , indeed , is of a con- trary way of thinking , with regard to this female virtue but till ...
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... head to bid me live without breathing . But take care , my love , that you never give up the power you have over me ; for if ever it comes to my turn to reign , I will be revenged on you without mercy . I will load you so with love and ...
... head to bid me live without breathing . But take care , my love , that you never give up the power you have over me ; for if ever it comes to my turn to reign , I will be revenged on you without mercy . I will load you so with love and ...
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... heads , wear white linen , and clean pocket handkerchiefs , in open defiance of all the power of France . But above all , I insist upon their laying aside that shameful piratical practice of hoist- ing false colours upon their top ...
... heads , wear white linen , and clean pocket handkerchiefs , in open defiance of all the power of France . But above all , I insist upon their laying aside that shameful piratical practice of hoist- ing false colours upon their top ...
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... heads to ring every body about them ; and we have had instances how able they have been by the help of these RINGS , to lead both houses of parliament by the nose . The device en- graved on those nose - jewels was , The Protector . At ...
... heads to ring every body about them ; and we have had instances how able they have been by the help of these RINGS , to lead both houses of parliament by the nose . The device en- graved on those nose - jewels was , The Protector . At ...
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