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... hope you will not mind some small inconveniences if not absolute impossibility keeps You from accepting the Gracious invitation of His Majesty . As the time for acting is now fast coming on in this country I hope you will favor me with ...
... hope you will not mind some small inconveniences if not absolute impossibility keeps You from accepting the Gracious invitation of His Majesty . As the time for acting is now fast coming on in this country I hope you will favor me with ...
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... hope You will acknow- ledge that I have had your Name signed by him upon those new sheets in the same way and realy ... hope as yet Sweden will come in a state of neutrally best wishes for its position , if by any means other powers will ...
... hope You will acknow- ledge that I have had your Name signed by him upon those new sheets in the same way and realy ... hope as yet Sweden will come in a state of neutrally best wishes for its position , if by any means other powers will ...
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... hope the world shall have some more proofs that the Swedish spirit is as yet undaunted as he is quiet and orderly . My Wife and Children as well as I am for ever Your steady Friend B. PLATEN . ' " Platen still awaited Telford's ...
... hope the world shall have some more proofs that the Swedish spirit is as yet undaunted as he is quiet and orderly . My Wife and Children as well as I am for ever Your steady Friend B. PLATEN . ' " Platen still awaited Telford's ...
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The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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