Enigmas of HistoryM. Joseph, 1957 - 253 pages |
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Page 103
... seems to me reading history backwards by using knowledge of what More eventually died for and applying it to an earlier and different situation . Also it credits More , the lay statesman , accommodating to the utmost and anxious to obey ...
... seems to me reading history backwards by using knowledge of what More eventually died for and applying it to an earlier and different situation . Also it credits More , the lay statesman , accommodating to the utmost and anxious to obey ...
Page 168
... seems a little too good to be true . After the counsel had finished with Glover , the Lord Chief Baron asked him : ' Did you desire to go out or did he send you ? ' which seems a reasonably clear indication that the mind of the Bench ...
... seems a little too good to be true . After the counsel had finished with Glover , the Lord Chief Baron asked him : ' Did you desire to go out or did he send you ? ' which seems a reasonably clear indication that the mind of the Bench ...
Page 214
... seems unlikely that he was trusted with any profound secrets . But might he not have been a ' cover ' for the mysterious man whom Minette did not know and whom Charles , in the darkness of the passage , did not see ? Because the theory ...
... seems unlikely that he was trusted with any profound secrets . But might he not have been a ' cover ' for the mysterious man whom Minette did not know and whom Charles , in the darkness of the passage , did not see ? Because the theory ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
The Wives of King George IV | 19 |
The Parentage of Queen Elizabeth I | 91 |
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