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A STORY OF QUEEN ANNE'S DAYS. 261
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of the Hanoverian accession . * As for 's , much though lik he e a touches man talking upon politics secrets with under a his whispering breathyet caution it is ,
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Duke of , Ormond . To him Ormond is a man "whose great birth made the least t of his nobility ; " highminded
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to is itself I his suppressed . au vouch Here thority for , again a , in reserve for , the all as particulars he surnam " Osmyn tells e us of " , having " most one The of likel truth had the y princi of the considere this sam pal anecdote e d gures from due
the can mouth of this good clergym , an ' s son who hath often obli Our ging story ly diverted belongs me to with the this earl history part of . " queen Anne's reign .
At that time Eathlin was a bl y eak and barren spot , a few
* " Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof . "
A Story Of Queen Anne's Days. 261
A STORY OF QUEEN ANNE ' S DAYS . 261
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 261, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/45/
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