Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding Centuries ...T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798 - Anecdotes |
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... took notice of an error in the Ca- lendar with refpect to the aberration of the folar year ; and propofed to his patron , Clement the Fourth , a plan for correcting it in 1267 , which was adopted three hundred years afterwards by ...
... took notice of an error in the Ca- lendar with refpect to the aberration of the folar year ; and propofed to his patron , Clement the Fourth , a plan for correcting it in 1267 , which was adopted three hundred years afterwards by ...
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... took place , under pretence that the money was wrong ; and Edward the Third , to whom Aimeri had difcovered the whole tranfaction , rushed out on horfeback , disguised , with fome horfemen , to attack the French troops . Among them was ...
... took place , under pretence that the money was wrong ; and Edward the Third , to whom Aimeri had difcovered the whole tranfaction , rushed out on horfeback , disguised , with fome horfemen , to attack the French troops . Among them was ...
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... took place between the Bishop and the Earl Marshall . The Duke of Lancaster then interfered , and told the Bishop , " that the " Earl Marshall's motion was a very reasonable • one , and that as for him , ( the Bishop , ) he was now ...
... took place between the Bishop and the Earl Marshall . The Duke of Lancaster then interfered , and told the Bishop , " that the " Earl Marshall's motion was a very reasonable • one , and that as for him , ( the Bishop , ) he was now ...
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... took its rise more from a fatiety of pleasure , and from a defire to command , than from any regard to religion , or any defire to promote the happiness of his people . The well - known Spanish lines fay of this Monarch , Sure as these ...
... took its rise more from a fatiety of pleasure , and from a defire to command , than from any regard to religion , or any defire to promote the happiness of his people . The well - known Spanish lines fay of this Monarch , Sure as these ...
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... took special care to preferve the choiceft books " of their well - furnished Libraries ; wherein I " find John Leland ( a curious fearcher of anti- quities ) was employed . " 66 As Leo X. had given Henry the name of Defenfor Fidei ...
... took special care to preferve the choiceft books " of their well - furnished Libraries ; wherein I " find John Leland ( a curious fearcher of anti- quities ) was employed . " 66 As Leo X. had given Henry the name of Defenfor Fidei ...
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