The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution in 1688, Volume 4Stereotyped and printed by and for A. Wilson, Duke Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1810 |
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Page 94 - to defend her religion by all the topics then in use, but also to write a letter to her sister* in the Greek language; in which, besides sending her a copy of the scriptures in that tongue, she exhorted her to maintain, in every fortune, a like steady perseverance.
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