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" ... it would be both great grief and some shame also to the eldest to see her younger sister preferred before her in marriage, he then, of a certain pity, framed his fancy toward her, and soon after married her... "
A Sketch of the Reformation - Page 177
by Thomas Bayley Fox - 1836 - 259 pages
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The Life of Sir Thomas More

William Roper - Christian saints - 1822 - 262 pages
...that he thought her the fairest and best favoured, yet when he considered that it would be both great grief and some shame also to the eldest to see her...pity, framed his fancy toward her, and soon after I0 married her, never the more discontinuing his study of the law at Lincolu's Inn, but applying still...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 184

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1896 - 616 pages
...fairest and best favoured ; yet when he considered that it would be both great grief and some shame to the eldest to see her younger sister preferred...his fancy toward her and soon after married her,' — an instance of self-abnegation bordering surely on heroic charity, which apparently had its reward....
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The Bijou: An Annual of Literature and the Arts, Volume 2

Gift books - 1829 - 342 pages
...on the second daughter, who was the handsomest; but " when he considered that it would be both great grief and some shame also to the eldest, to see her...marriage, he then, of a certain pity, framed his fancy towards her, and married her." By her he had all his children, one son and three daughters ; and two...
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Eminent British Statesmen: Sir Thomas More [by Sir J. Mackintosh] Cardinal ...

Statesmen - 1831 - 388 pages
...that he thought her the fairest and hest favoured, yet when he considered that it would be both great grief, and some shame also, to the eldest, to see...his fancy toward her, and soon after married her, neverthemore discontinuing his study of the law at Lincoln's Inn." * His more remote descendant adds,...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...that he thought her the fairest and best favoured, yet when he considered that it would be both great grief, and some shame also, to the eldest, to see...his fancy toward her, and soon after married her, neverthemore discontinuing his study of the law at Lincoln's Inn."* His more remote descendant adds,...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

1835 - 430 pages
...that he thought her the fairest and best favoured, yet when he considered that it would be both great grief, and some shame also, to the eldest, to see...his fancy toward her, and soon after married her, neverthemore discontinuing his study of the law at Lincoln's Inn."* His more remote descendant adds,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, Volume 1

Sir James Mackintosh - Canada - 1846 - 614 pages
...that he thought her the fairest and best favoured, yet when he considered that it would be both great grief, and some shame also, to the eldest, to see...his fancy toward her, and soon after married her, neverthemore discontinuing his • " Suavissime More." " Charissime More." " Mellitissime More." I...
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The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three ...

Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1848 - 630 pages
...that he thought her the fairest and best favoured, yet when he considered that it would be both great grief, and some shame also, to the eldest, to see...his fancy toward her, and soon after married her, neverthemore discontinuing his study of the law at Lincoln's Inn."t His more remote descendant adds,...
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The Dawning of Genius: Exemplified and Exhibited in the Early Lives of ...

Theodore Alois Buckley - Biography - 1853 - 446 pages
...fairest and best favoured, yet when he considered that it would be both great grief and pure shame to the eldest to see her younger sister preferred...marriage, he then of a certain pity framed his fancy to her, and soon after married her." It may be added, that, strange and whimsical as this match appeared,...
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The Judges of England: With Sketches of Their Lives, and ..., Volume 5

Edward Foss - Courts - 1857 - 568 pages
...that he thought her the fairest and best favoured, yet when he considered that it would be both great grief and some shame also to the eldest to see her...marriage, he then of a certain pity framed his fancy towards her, and soon after married her, never the more discontinuing his study of the law at Lincoln's...
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