The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 9G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... lords over lands which they conquered . Thus many individual kings came to exercise absolute power illegally by transferring their rights as conquerors to those cases where they were limited monarchs . It is very possible too that both ...
... lords over lands which they conquered . Thus many individual kings came to exercise absolute power illegally by transferring their rights as conquerors to those cases where they were limited monarchs . It is very possible too that both ...
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... lords - in - waiting as well as his household brigade of both horse and foot guards , and perform for him many semi - menial offices which great lords and ladies are not ashamed to perform for royalty even up to the present day . I will ...
... lords - in - waiting as well as his household brigade of both horse and foot guards , and perform for him many semi - menial offices which great lords and ladies are not ashamed to perform for royalty even up to the present day . I will ...
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... lords , after a gallant struggle for their old sovereign , loyally went over to his side . Both his wives were oriental princesses , and perhaps too little has been said by historians about the influence they must have had in ...
... lords , after a gallant struggle for their old sovereign , loyally went over to his side . Both his wives were oriental princesses , and perhaps too little has been said by historians about the influence they must have had in ...
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... lord that was mighty of men made him strong , and many weened to have been king . Then Merlin went to the Arch- bishop of Canterbury , and counseled him for to send for all the lords of the realm , and all the gentlemen of arms , that ...
... lord that was mighty of men made him strong , and many weened to have been king . Then Merlin went to the Arch- bishop of Canterbury , and counseled him for to send for all the lords of the realm , and all the gentlemen of arms , that ...
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... lords went to behold the stone and the sword . And when they saw the scripture , some assayed ; such as would have been king . But none might stir the sword nor move it . He is not here , said the Archbishop , that shall achieve the ...
... lords went to behold the stone and the sword . And when they saw the scripture , some assayed ; such as would have been king . But none might stir the sword nor move it . He is not here , said the Archbishop , that shall achieve the ...
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