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As to your wife I am certain she is a wounderfull woman
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As to your wife I am certain she is a wounderfull woman
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CHURCH thinks this is wounderfull it brings to the U.S.A. The great way things happen with PATRON & PEON way of life.
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Melville, ever shrewd in discerning character -- 'he had a wounderfull sagacitie in smelling out of men's naturalls and dispositions' -- early saw that Adamson would prove a better servant of the Court than of the Church.
Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison
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He was a man of wounderfull gravity and wisdome, and understood not only the whole science and mistery of the Law, at least æqually with any man who had ever sate in that place, but had a cleere conception of the whole policy of the government both of Church and State, which by the unskilfulnesse of some well meaninge men, justled each the other to much.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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He dyed towards the end of December, before the Scotts entred, and was buryed with wounderfull Pompe and Magnificence in that Place where the Bones of our English Kings and Princes are committed to ther rest.
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[Fol.xliij. r] minundas and knowlege, was so aboundant and profounde bothe in Philosophie, and in all other artes and sciences, that it was wounderfull.
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Nation to the most slavish obedyence that could have bene wished, but no man can say, he had then many who advized him to it, but the contrary, by a wounderfull indisposition all his Councell had to fightinge, or any other fatigue.
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He was willinge to be thought a scholar, and to understande the most misterious partes of Antiquity, because he made a wounderfull and costly purchase of excellent statues whilst he was in Italy and in Rome (some wherof he could never obtayne permission to remoove from Rome, though he had payd for them) and had
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The sluce being broaken, what a wounderfull thing to see the industrie of that animal, which had drowned more then 20 leagues in the grounds, and cutt all the trees, having left non to make a fire if the countrey should be dried up.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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