Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One Hundred and Fifty Writers from the Period of the Paston Letters to the Present DayWilliam Baptiste Scoones Harper & Bros., 1880 - 573 pagini |
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... Letters to the Present Day William Baptiste Scoones. confusion , or roughness . . . . The writing of letters has so much ... letter - writing as an art and on the varied beauties of our own epistolary literature in particular ; and will ...
... Letters to the Present Day William Baptiste Scoones. confusion , or roughness . . . . The writing of letters has so much ... letter - writing as an art and on the varied beauties of our own epistolary literature in particular ; and will ...
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... Letters to the Present Day William Baptiste Scoones. I. Forty years ago , Mr. Hallam , referring to an imperfect edition ... letter describes the capture and murder of the Duke of Suffolk , the most able of Henry the Sixth's counsellors ...
... Letters to the Present Day William Baptiste Scoones. I. Forty years ago , Mr. Hallam , referring to an imperfect edition ... letter describes the capture and murder of the Duke of Suffolk , the most able of Henry the Sixth's counsellors ...
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... Letters to the Present Day William Baptiste Scoones. [ Cranmer had written but not despatched this letter , when he was summoned to a conference by the Lord Chancellor and other peers , who stated to him the facts which , they said ...
... Letters to the Present Day William Baptiste Scoones. [ Cranmer had written but not despatched this letter , when he was summoned to a conference by the Lord Chancellor and other peers , who stated to him the facts which , they said ...
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... letter to Wolsey concern- ing the dispensation for her marriage . It will be remembered that Anne was led to suppose that the delay of her marriage was caused by the Cardinal's wish for another alliance , whereas he was really employing ...
... letter to Wolsey concern- ing the dispensation for her marriage . It will be remembered that Anne was led to suppose that the delay of her marriage was caused by the Cardinal's wish for another alliance , whereas he was really employing ...
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... letter of condolence from Ralegh to her husband - for the two statesmen were firm friends in the year 1596 . If the letter does not help to illustrate Mr. Hume's remark that Ralegh's prose was ' the best model of our ancient style ...
... letter of condolence from Ralegh to her husband - for the two statesmen were firm friends in the year 1596 . If the letter does not help to illustrate Mr. Hume's remark that Ralegh's prose was ' the best model of our ancient style ...
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Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ... William Baptiste Scoones Vizualizare completă - 1893 |
Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ... William Baptiste Scoones Vizualizare completă - 1880 |
Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ... William Baptiste Scoones Vizualizare completă - 1893 |
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