Reuben Medlicott: Or The Coming Man, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1852 |
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... profession he chooses , we'll see him at the tip - top of it before he is thirty . " This secured Mr. Pigwidgeon the dinner . Mr. Pigwidgeon was a deliberate flatterer ; he lived by it in part , as he lived by administer- ing other less ...
... profession he chooses , we'll see him at the tip - top of it before he is thirty . " This secured Mr. Pigwidgeon the dinner . Mr. Pigwidgeon was a deliberate flatterer ; he lived by it in part , as he lived by administer- ing other less ...
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... professions in connexion with his young head . Upon the whole , what with his handsome person , his engaging manners , his voluble tongue , the acquirements he actually possessed , and those his fond friends so liberally gave him credit ...
... professions in connexion with his young head . Upon the whole , what with his handsome person , his engaging manners , his voluble tongue , the acquirements he actually possessed , and those his fond friends so liberally gave him credit ...
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... profession . In fact , in common with most of the Dean's family , she had ceased to flatter herself with the hopes of the mitre . Mathematics having been thrown aside , a period followed in which Reuben seemed to lie dormant , like a ...
... profession . In fact , in common with most of the Dean's family , she had ceased to flatter herself with the hopes of the mitre . Mathematics having been thrown aside , a period followed in which Reuben seemed to lie dormant , like a ...
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... attain that degree of facility in public speaking which is essential to distinction in the profession of the law , though subordinate , of course , to the study of the law itself . If he felt any pain OR THE COMING MAN . 13.
... attain that degree of facility in public speaking which is essential to distinction in the profession of the law , though subordinate , of course , to the study of the law itself . If he felt any pain OR THE COMING MAN . 13.
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... profession to yield an imme- diate income , even assuming success to be perfectly certain . " My dear fellow , " said Primrose , " neither Winning nor myself has any patrimony worth speaking of . In nine cases out of ten , a patri- mony ...
... profession to yield an imme- diate income , even assuming success to be perfectly certain . " My dear fellow , " said Primrose , " neither Winning nor myself has any patrimony worth speaking of . In nine cases out of ten , a patri- mony ...
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