The Private Character of Queen Elizabeth: With 8 Illustrations and Numerous FacsimilesDodd, Mead, 1925 - 334 pages |
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... favour of Jane's three successors in the affections of Henry VIII . , Anne of Cleves , Catherine Howard , and Katherine Parr , and especially of the last , who became Queen when Elizabeth was nine . A year later , however , the little ...
... favour of Jane's three successors in the affections of Henry VIII . , Anne of Cleves , Catherine Howard , and Katherine Parr , and especially of the last , who became Queen when Elizabeth was nine . A year later , however , the little ...
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... favour ! It was a contest between the craftiest and most unscrupulous men in the Kingdom , their wits sharpened by the knowledge that failure might mean their death , and a maid who had passed her fifteenth birthday four months before ...
... favour ! It was a contest between the craftiest and most unscrupulous men in the Kingdom , their wits sharpened by the knowledge that failure might mean their death , and a maid who had passed her fifteenth birthday four months before ...
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... favour by implying that his individual consent was required , although she knew that it was not . Could more adroitness be shown in the same number of words ? Then she describes how her cofferer sent word that the Admiral would come to ...
... favour by implying that his individual consent was required , although she knew that it was not . Could more adroitness be shown in the same number of words ? Then she describes how her cofferer sent word that the Admiral would come to ...
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... favours from its subject - it is the confidence of one schoolmaster to his fellow . " There are many honourable ladies ... favour of his mistress , might have aspired to high dignities , he was snatched away by a sudden illness . I was ...
... favours from its subject - it is the confidence of one schoolmaster to his fellow . " There are many honourable ladies ... favour of his mistress , might have aspired to high dignities , he was snatched away by a sudden illness . I was ...
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... favours from your majesty , I yet have , in so long an interval , sent no letters , whereby you might discern at least , the signs of a grateful heart ; for which omission , as there are just and necessary causes , I hope and am ...
... favours from your majesty , I yet have , in so long an interval , sent no letters , whereby you might discern at least , the signs of a grateful heart ; for which omission , as there are just and necessary causes , I hope and am ...
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