Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Brisban and Brannan [Printed by Robert Carr], 1805 - 356 pages |
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... cause to congratulate myself for having so happily bestowed it . Of Doctor Richard Bentley , my maternal grandfather , I shall next take leave to speak . Of him I have perfect recollection . His person , his dignity , his language and ...
... cause to congratulate myself for having so happily bestowed it . Of Doctor Richard Bentley , my maternal grandfather , I shall next take leave to speak . Of him I have perfect recollection . His person , his dignity , his language and ...
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... cause to love her , and lament her death . She inherited the virtues and benignity of her mother , with habits more adapted to the fashions of the world . Joanna , the younger of Doctor Bentley's daughters , and the Phoebe of Byron's ...
... cause to love her , and lament her death . She inherited the virtues and benignity of her mother , with habits more adapted to the fashions of the world . Joanna , the younger of Doctor Bentley's daughters , and the Phoebe of Byron's ...
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... her steps , but on the contrary , after a few unpromising efforts , peremp- torily gave up the cause , and persisted in a stubborn repugnance to all instruction . My mother's good sense and my grandfather's 14 MEMOIRS OF.
... her steps , but on the contrary , after a few unpromising efforts , peremp- torily gave up the cause , and persisted in a stubborn repugnance to all instruction . My mother's good sense and my grandfather's 14 MEMOIRS OF.
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... cause more natural I know not : I was , however , laid up in a sick bed for a considerable time , and in that piteous si- tuation visited by my mother , who came from Cambridge on the alarm , and under her tender care I at length ...
... cause more natural I know not : I was , however , laid up in a sick bed for a considerable time , and in that piteous si- tuation visited by my mother , who came from Cambridge on the alarm , and under her tender care I at length ...
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... caused me always to be prepared against it , and I held pos- session of my post under a suspended sword , that hourly menaced me without ever dropping . Whilst I dwell on the detail of anecdotes like the above I must refer myself to the ...
... caused me always to be prepared against it , and I held pos- session of my post under a suspended sword , that hourly menaced me without ever dropping . Whilst I dwell on the detail of anecdotes like the above I must refer myself to the ...
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