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... king . The earliest charter conferred upon the town was is now held the Free Grammar - school , the date of the first granted by king John in the first year of his reign , and by establishment of which is not known , though it was cer ...
... king . The earliest charter conferred upon the town was is now held the Free Grammar - school , the date of the first granted by king John in the first year of his reign , and by establishment of which is not known , though it was cer ...
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... king , coming over in person , received the submission of the Irish monarch , and of almost all the provincial and petty kings , and in the same year had his title confirmed , and the discipline of the Irish and English churches ...
... king , coming over in person , received the submission of the Irish monarch , and of almost all the provincial and petty kings , and in the same year had his title confirmed , and the discipline of the Irish and English churches ...
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... king Charles's death ; by intercepting a letter , he is said to have discovered that it was the king's intention to destroy him and Cromwell , and from that time he rejected any accom- modation he attended most of the sittings of the ...
... king Charles's death ; by intercepting a letter , he is said to have discovered that it was the king's intention to destroy him and Cromwell , and from that time he rejected any accom- modation he attended most of the sittings of the ...
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... king Philip . Hermippus , who wrote the lives of the pupils of Isocrates , has recorded nothing more of Isæus than that he was a pupil of Isocrates , instructed Demosthenes , and enjoyed the society of the chief philosophers of his time ...
... king Philip . Hermippus , who wrote the lives of the pupils of Isocrates , has recorded nothing more of Isæus than that he was a pupil of Isocrates , instructed Demosthenes , and enjoyed the society of the chief philosophers of his time ...
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... King , R.N. , collected many specimens on the east coast of Patagonia , and also at Port Famine , in the Straits , where Capt . King saw the beach covered with dead speci- mens . He also observed them alive swimming close to the bottom ...
... King , R.N. , collected many specimens on the east coast of Patagonia , and also at Port Famine , in the Straits , where Capt . King saw the beach covered with dead speci- mens . He also observed them alive swimming close to the bottom ...
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