Dictionary of National Biography, المجلد 4Leslie Stephen Macmillan, 1885 |
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... persons of her time . She painted in oil , water - colours , and crayons ; her heads being very often surrounded by an oval border painted in imitation of carved stone . Her price was five pounds for a head , and ten pounds for a half ...
... persons of her time . She painted in oil , water - colours , and crayons ; her heads being very often surrounded by an oval border painted in imitation of carved stone . Her price was five pounds for a head , and ten pounds for a half ...
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... person of such dexterity and resource as Mary Stuart . She seems to have contrived to delude him with the idea that she had really given up ambition , and was desirous only to live a retired life for the rest of her days . This appears ...
... person of such dexterity and resource as Mary Stuart . She seems to have contrived to delude him with the idea that she had really given up ambition , and was desirous only to live a retired life for the rest of her days . This appears ...
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... persons , was Clapham Rise . He continued occasionally kept so secret as to escape the knowledge or to sing in public until a late period of his suspicion of the Spaniards , and may so re- life , and in 1840 he won a prize at the main ...
... persons , was Clapham Rise . He continued occasionally kept so secret as to escape the knowledge or to sing in public until a late period of his suspicion of the Spaniards , and may so re- life , and in 1840 he won a prize at the main ...
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... persons was held without a single breach of the law . Then came the memo- rable 23 July , and the immense gathering near the gates of Hyde Park , when Beales displayed great courage and coolness . While he and the other leaders were ...
... persons was held without a single breach of the law . Then came the memo- rable 23 July , and the immense gathering near the gates of Hyde Park , when Beales displayed great courage and coolness . While he and the other leaders were ...
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... person , Dr. Neile , now Bishop of Winton , did reprehend him , the said Beard , for it ' ( GAR- DINER'S History ( 1884 ) , vii . 55-6 ) . Before Beard could give his ' testimony from his own lips , ' the parliament was dissolved . In ...
... person , Dr. Neile , now Bishop of Winton , did reprehend him , the said Beard , for it ' ( GAR- DINER'S History ( 1884 ) , vii . 55-6 ) . Before Beard could give his ' testimony from his own lips , ' the parliament was dissolved . In ...
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