The Pastor's Fire-side: A Novel, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817 |
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... duty of this morning passed with a deputation from the merchants of Ostend . He had received his father's commands to that purpose , to hold a con- ference with them respecting the sanction which the Spanish Monarch had granted to their ...
... duty of this morning passed with a deputation from the merchants of Ostend . He had received his father's commands to that purpose , to hold a con- ference with them respecting the sanction which the Spanish Monarch had granted to their ...
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... duties to their country , and to the world in general , by the approbation and prosperity of those they serve . Rewards of any other kind , the cannot accept ; as they neither un- derstand , nor value them . " The dignity with which ...
... duties to their country , and to the world in general , by the approbation and prosperity of those they serve . Rewards of any other kind , the cannot accept ; as they neither un- derstand , nor value them . " The dignity with which ...
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... duty to your country ; and yet not allow it to trouble you beyond the present hour ? ” 66 Impossible , " returned he ; " in mar- rying the Countess Altheim , I shall marry my disgrace and my abhorrence . " " The act must pass for that ...
... duty to your country ; and yet not allow it to trouble you beyond the present hour ? ” 66 Impossible , " returned he ; " in mar- rying the Countess Altheim , I shall marry my disgrace and my abhorrence . " " The act must pass for that ...
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... duty , but a temporary system of deceiv- ing the Empress and her favourite . When you entered a political career , you en- gaged on oath , to sacrifice every thing ; your bosom's passions , and even your reputation with men , to the ...
... duty , but a temporary system of deceiv- ing the Empress and her favourite . When you entered a political career , you en- gaged on oath , to sacrifice every thing ; your bosom's passions , and even your reputation with men , to the ...
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... duty towards my new country , ob- liged me to write thither , to ask permis- sion of the King and Queen of Spain to form a foreign alliance , before I could formally give my consent . In this , the Empress acquiesced . Here then , is ...
... duty towards my new country , ob- liged me to write thither , to ask permis- sion of the King and Queen of Spain to form a foreign alliance , before I could formally give my consent . In this , the Empress acquiesced . Here then , is ...
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