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Page 68 - ... he fell from his duty, and all his former friends, and prostituted himself to the vile office of celebrating the infamous acts of those who were in rebellion against the King ; which he did so meanly, that he seemed to all men to have lost his wits when he left his honesty; and so shortly after died miserable and neglected, and deserves to be forgotten.
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| Title | Monk's Contemporaries: Biographic Studies on the English Revolution Bohn's cheap series Bohn's shilling series |
| Authors | François Guizot, Guizot (M., François) |
| Translated by | Sir Andrew Richard Scoble |
| Publisher | Bohn, 1851 |
| Length | 195 pages |
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