 I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?' The bishop of Durham readily answered, ' God forbid, sir, but you should : you are the breath of our nostrils.  Biographia evangelica - Page 432by Erasmus Middleton - 1816Full view - About this book
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