Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Brisban and Brannan [Printed by Robert Carr], 1805 - 356 pages |
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... amongst the rest of my school - fellows . " 66 Once , and only once , I recollect his giving me a gentle rebuke for making a most outrageous noise in the room over his library and disturbing him in his studies ; I had no apprehension of ...
... amongst the rest of my school - fellows . " 66 Once , and only once , I recollect his giving me a gentle rebuke for making a most outrageous noise in the room over his library and disturbing him in his studies ; I had no apprehension of ...
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... history with these few faint sketches of the great and good men , whom I have the honour to number amongst my ancestors , I must solicit the condescension of my rea- ders to a much humbler topic , and proceed to RICHARD CUMBERLAND . 13.
... history with these few faint sketches of the great and good men , whom I have the honour to number amongst my ancestors , I must solicit the condescension of my rea- ders to a much humbler topic , and proceed to RICHARD CUMBERLAND . 13.
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... amongst the most formidable of my form - fellows , I may venture to say that school - boy must have been more than commonly alert , whom they could not overtake and de- pose ; but the exertion of my competitors was such a spur to my ...
... amongst the most formidable of my form - fellows , I may venture to say that school - boy must have been more than commonly alert , whom they could not overtake and de- pose ; but the exertion of my competitors was such a spur to my ...
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... amongst my school fellows , which struck my fancy , and without naming the author , ( for I knew him not , ) I repeated it to my father — it was this— Poets of old did Argus prize Because he had an hundred eyes , But sure more praise to ...
... amongst my school fellows , which struck my fancy , and without naming the author , ( for I knew him not , ) I repeated it to my father — it was this— Poets of old did Argus prize Because he had an hundred eyes , But sure more praise to ...
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... amongst them to issue his warrant within the pre- cincts of his own happy village , which being seated between the more populous and less correct parishes of Raunds and Higham- Ferrers , he used appositely to call Little Zoar , but made ...
... amongst them to issue his warrant within the pre- cincts of his own happy village , which being seated between the more populous and less correct parishes of Raunds and Higham- Ferrers , he used appositely to call Little Zoar , but made ...
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