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Page 1 - Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, engraved from authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the ' Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country : with Biographical and Historical Memoirs of their Lives and Actions. By Edmund Lodge, Esq., FSA London, folio, three volumes (200 Engravings).
Page 8 - I received your letter with indignation, and with scorn I return you this answer : that I cannot but wonder whence you should gather any hopes from me, that I should (like you) prove treacherous to my Sovereign ; since you cannot be insensible of my former actings in his late Majesty's service ; from which principle of loyalty I am no way departed.
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| Title | Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Volume 7 Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Edmund Lodge |
| Author | Edmund Lodge |
| Publisher | Harding and Lepard, 1835 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Aug 6, 2007 |
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