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... present alarming Scarcity of Grain and Provisions , and a Plan for permanent Relief , ' 1800. The pamphlet was dedicated to Pitt , and at- tempted to trace the cause of the high prices of the time to the rage for accumulating wealth ...
... present alarming Scarcity of Grain and Provisions , and a Plan for permanent Relief , ' 1800. The pamphlet was dedicated to Pitt , and at- tempted to trace the cause of the high prices of the time to the rage for accumulating wealth ...
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... present Viscount Valentia and Baron Mount- norris being the lineal descendant of the sixth son of the first viscount . The family derives its name from Annesley , in Notting- shire , where it is supposed to have been settled before the ...
... present Viscount Valentia and Baron Mount- norris being the lineal descendant of the sixth son of the first viscount . The family derives its name from Annesley , in Notting- shire , where it is supposed to have been settled before the ...
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... present in court , in order to prevent any chicanery being practised by his own party ; but if the other side used craft and sophistry , he heeded not , and occupied his time in discussing some passage in the Scrip- tures or some ...
... present in court , in order to prevent any chicanery being practised by his own party ; but if the other side used craft and sophistry , he heeded not , and occupied his time in discussing some passage in the Scrip- tures or some ...
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... present at the strange and terrible scenes amidst which the body of the Con- queror was laid in the minster of St. Stephen at Caen . Lanfranc crowned William the Red king of England , and in the following year , 1089 , he died . William ...
... present at the strange and terrible scenes amidst which the body of the Con- queror was laid in the minster of St. Stephen at Caen . Lanfranc crowned William the Red king of England , and in the following year , 1089 , he died . William ...
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... present on the poor . So the midwinter not Anselm's ; and pray , ' said he , with a gemot broke up ; Anselm went to his manor sneer , what will you talk about in your at Harrow , where he consecrated a church council ? ' The sin of ...
... present on the poor . So the midwinter not Anselm's ; and pray , ' said he , with a gemot broke up ; Anselm went to his manor sneer , what will you talk about in your at Harrow , where he consecrated a church council ? ' The sin of ...
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