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Page 99
... Master Doughty's own confession , and partly by the evidence of the fact , to be true . Which when our General saw , although his private affection to Master Doughty ( as he then in the presence of us all sacredly protested ) was great ...
... Master Doughty's own confession , and partly by the evidence of the fact , to be true . Which when our General saw , although his private affection to Master Doughty ( as he then in the presence of us all sacredly protested ) was great ...
Page 149
... Master's command transporting a sum of Money , be assailed by Robbers and die in many irreconciled Iniquities , you may call the business of the Master the author of the Servant's damnation . But this is not so : The King is not bound ...
... Master's command transporting a sum of Money , be assailed by Robbers and die in many irreconciled Iniquities , you may call the business of the Master the author of the Servant's damnation . But this is not so : The King is not bound ...
Page 394
... Master standing by the Bed - side in his Shirt , with a Candle in his Hand , than she started back in a most terrible Fright , and might perhaps have swooned away , had he not now recollected his being undrest , and put an End to her ...
... Master standing by the Bed - side in his Shirt , with a Candle in his Hand , than she started back in a most terrible Fright , and might perhaps have swooned away , had he not now recollected his being undrest , and put an End to her ...
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