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These considerations determined me to lay this treatise at your lordship's feet, and the rather because I was ambitious to have it known that I am with the truest and most profound respect, on account of that learning and virtue which the world so justly admires in your lordship,
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley 2006
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"I only send this, my dear Ball," says his lordship,
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship,
Act IV. Scene I. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship,
Selected English Letters Various 1913
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"I like your little woman a whole lot," he observed to his lordship,
Ruggles of Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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"Well, she happens to care for somebody else," answered his lordship,
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Sae, in future, seem 'it's o' sic sma 'consequence to yer lordship,
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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"There are so many people come to town now-a-days," said his lordship,
M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." G.J. Whyte-Melville 1849
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"I cannot visit Portray this August, I'm afraid," said his lordship,
The Eustace Diamonds Anthony Trollope 1848
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And as we humbly take our leaves of your lordship,
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