The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution in 1688, Volume 5Little, Brown and Company, 1854 - Great Britain |
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Page 37 - What I forfeit for myself, it is nothing, but I confess, that my indiscretion should forfeit for them, it wounds me very deeply. You will be pleased to pardon my infirmity; something I should have said, but I see I shall not be able, and therefore I shall leave it.
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Page 213 - And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter ? have we eaten at all of the king's cost! or hath he given us any gift...
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