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Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to ... - Page 151
by William Fordyce Mavor - 1803
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Female Biography: Or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women ..., Volume 1

Mary Hays - Women - 1803 - 520 pages
...Cecil requesting her to speak more expressly, she added, ' she would have a king to succeed her ; and who should that be, but her nearest kinsman, the king of Scots ?' The archbishop of Canterbury then advised her to fix her thoughts on God. She did so, she replied,...
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The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the ..., Volume 5

David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 552 pages
...to explain herself more particularly, she subjoined, that she would have a king to succeed her ; and who should that be, but her nearest kinsman, the king of Scots ? Being then advised by the archbishop of Canterbury to fix her thoughts upon God, she replied, that...
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Female Biography: Or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women ..., Volume 2

Mary Hays - Women - 1807 - 528 pages
...Cecil requesting her to speak more expressly, she added, ' she would have a king to succeed her; and who should that be, but her nearest kinsman, the king of Scots?' The archbishop of Canterbury then advised her to fix her thoughts on God. She did so, she replied,...
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The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the revolution ...

David Hume - Great Britain - 1812 - 550 pages
...to explain herself more particularly, she subjoined, that she would have a King to succeed her ; and who should that be, but her nearest kinsman, the King of Scots ? Being then advised by the Archbishop of Canterbury to fix her thoughts upon God, she replied, that...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 13

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 528 pages
...to explain herself more particularly, she subjoined, that she would have a king to succeed her, and who should that be, but her nearest kinsman, the king of Scots ? Being then advised by the archbishop of Canterbury to fix her thoughts upon, God, she replied, that...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 502 pages
...to explain herself more particularly, she subjoined, that she would have a king to succeed her, and who should that be, but her nearest kinsman, the king of Scots ? Being then advised by the archbishop of Canterbury to fix her thoughts upon God, she replied, that...
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Hume and Smollett Abridged, and Continued to the Accession of George IV.

David Hume, John Robinson - Great Britain - 1824 - 568 pages
...she subjoined, that " she would have a king to succeed her, and who should that be, but her noarest kinsman, the king of Scots ?" Soon after, her voice failed, and her senses were lost ; and fulling into a lethargic slumber, she gently expired, in the seventieth year of her age, and the forty-fifth...
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A Universal Biography: Containing Interesting Accounts, Critical ..., Volume 5

John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 882 pages
...avoided. She said she had held a regal sceptre, and would have none but a king to succeed her ; and who should that be but her nearest kinsman, the king of Scots. She soon after quietly expired, March 24, 1602, in the seventieth year of her age, and fortyfifth of...
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Hume and Smollett's Celebrated History of England, from Its First Settlement ...

David Hume, John Robinson - Great Britain - 1827 - 546 pages
...explain herself more particularly, she subjoined, that " she would have a king to succeed her, and who should that be, but her nearest kinsman, the king...expired, in the seventieth year of her age, and the fortyfifth of her reign. So dark was the cloud .which overspread the evening of that day, whose meridian...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ..., Volume 6

David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 440 pages
...to explain herself more particularly, she subjoined, that she would have a king to succeed her ; and who should that be, but her nearest kinsman, the king of Scots ? Being then advised by the archbishop of Canterbury to fix her thoughts upon God, she replied that...
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