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Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe: Containing a Review of His ... - Page 186
by Walter Wilson - 1830
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The Orthodox churchman's magazine; or, A Treasury of divine and ..., Volume 9

1805 - 510 pages
...cloke and a greasy hat (and neither of them, perhaps, paid for,) could have supposed in the §pace of so few years, he should, by the murder of one king, and banishment of another, ascend the throne, be invested in the royal robes, and want nothing of the state...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 28

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 518 pages
...house with a threadhare torn cloak, greasy hat (perhaps neither of them paid for), could have suspected that in the space of so few years, he should, by the murder of one king, and the hanishment of another, ascend the throne t" At this, the king is said to have fallen into a violent...
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - Biography - 1814 - 662 pages
...with a threadbare torn cloak, and greasy hat, perhaps neither of them paid for, could have suspected, that in the space of so few years he should, by the murder of one king, and the banishment of another, ascend the throne ?" This sally threw the merry monarch into a fit of laughter; and turning...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 28

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 522 pages
...house with a threadbare torn cloak, greasy hat (perhaps neither of them paid for), could have suspected that in the space of so few years, he should, by the murder of one king, and the banishment of another, ascend the throne r" At this, the king is said to have fallen into a violent fit of laughter,...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...thread bare torn coat and a greasy hat (and, perhaps, neither of them paid for) could have suspected, that in the space of so few years he should, by the murthcr of one king and the banishment of another, ascend the throne, be invested in the royal robes,...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 5

Tobias Smollett - Books - 1817 - 680 pages
...parliament-house, with a thread-bare coat and greasy hat, perhaps neither of them paid for, could have suspected that in the space of so few years he should, by the murder of one king and the banish, ment of another, ascend the throne T This sally threw the merry monarch into a fit of laughter...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 8

1821 - 498 pages
...thread-bare torn cloak, and a greasy hat (and perhaps neither of them paid for), could have suspected, that in the space of so few years, he should, by the murder of one king, and banishment of another, ascend the throne, be invested in tbe royal robes, and want nothing of the state...
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Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, Volume 1

Robert South - Sermons, English - 1823 - 618 pages
...threadbare torn cloak, and a greasy hat, (and perhaps neither of them paid for,) could have suspected that in the space of so few years, he should, by the murder of one king, and the banishment of another, ascend the throne, be invested in the royal robes, and want nothing of the state of a king,...
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The London Christian instructor, or, Congregational magazine, Volume 6

1823 - 736 pages
...threadbare torne cloak, and a greasy hat, (and perhaps neither of them paid for,) could have suspected that in the space of so few years, he should, by the murder of one king, and the banish* Major John Weyer : see Ravillac JKediviv. ment of another, ascend the throne, be invested in...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 16

Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...house with a threadbare torn cloak, greasy hat, (perhaps neither of them paid for) could have suspected that, in the space of so few years, he should, by the murder of one king, and the banishment of another, ascend the throne ?" At this the king is said to have fallen into a violent fit of laughter...
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