Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Brisban and Brannan [Printed by Robert Carr], 1805 - 356 pages |
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... happy art of relating them ; her invention was so fertile , her ideas so ori- ginal and the points of humour so ingeniously and unexpectedly taken up in the progress of her narrative , that she never failed to accomplish all the ...
... happy art of relating them ; her invention was so fertile , her ideas so ori- ginal and the points of humour so ingeniously and unexpectedly taken up in the progress of her narrative , that she never failed to accomplish all the ...
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... happy faculty which she possessed , of making every doctrine pleasant , every duty sweet , that what some instructors would have represent- ed as a burden and a yoke , she contrived to recommend as a recrea- tion and delight . All that ...
... happy faculty which she possessed , of making every doctrine pleasant , every duty sweet , that what some instructors would have represent- ed as a burden and a yoke , she contrived to recommend as a recrea- tion and delight . All that ...
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... now began to regard me with less than his usual indifference , and my early star was evidently in the ascendant . Such were to D. me the happy consequences of my worthy master's seasonable ad- RICHARD CUMBERLAND . 17.
... now began to regard me with less than his usual indifference , and my early star was evidently in the ascendant . Such were to D. me the happy consequences of my worthy master's seasonable ad- RICHARD CUMBERLAND . 17.
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Richard Cumberland. me the happy consequences of my worthy master's seasonable ad- monition . After the decease of Mrs. Bentley , my mother , whose devotion to her father was returned by the warmest affection on his part , passed much of ...
Richard Cumberland. me the happy consequences of my worthy master's seasonable ad- monition . After the decease of Mrs. Bentley , my mother , whose devotion to her father was returned by the warmest affection on his part , passed much of ...
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... 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 no further allusions to the evil neighbourhood of Zoar . In this ...
... 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 no further allusions to the evil neighbourhood of Zoar . In this ...
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