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  • Josephus, whose pretences had postponed the final assault, hid in a cave with forty men.
  • That doom was postponed; but Catholics everywhere saw with pain the harsh treatment accorded to a defenceless old man.
  • When a similar motion was brought forward in the Lords the consideration of it was postponed to the following year, in order to give time for the examination of witnesses by a committee of the House.
  • 1 but later postponed to the 2nd.
  • The partition of Turkey had to be postponed; the financial collapse of England could not be expected now that she framed an alliance with the Spanish patriots and had their markets and those of their colonies opened to her; and the discussions with the tsar Alexander, which had not gone quite smoothly, now took a decidedly unfavourable turn.
 
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