Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Brisban and Brannan [Printed by Robert Carr], 1805 - 356 pages |
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... lady preceded that of my grand- father by a few years only , and by her he had one son , Richard , and two daughters , Elizabeth and Joanna . Richard was a man of various and considerable accomplishments ; he had a fine genius , great ...
... lady preceded that of my grand- father by a few years only , and by her he had one son , Richard , and two daughters , Elizabeth and Joanna . Richard was a man of various and considerable accomplishments ; he had a fine genius , great ...
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... lady ; I had 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 ...
... lady ; I had 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 ...
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... ladies ; nay , I should even doubt if the master of Bury School understood all that he heard , but that the worthy vice master of Trinity was innocent of all apprehension , and clear of the plot , if treason was wrapped up in it , I can ...
... ladies ; nay , I should even doubt if the master of Bury School understood all that he heard , but that the worthy vice master of Trinity was innocent of all apprehension , and clear of the plot , if treason was wrapped up in it , I can ...
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... lady , and re- tained her friendship for my family to her death ; she gave me a copy of the great Earl of Strafford's Letters in two folio volumes , magnificently bound . This was the time for my good father , who I verily think never ...
... lady , and re- tained her friendship for my family to her death ; she gave me a copy of the great Earl of Strafford's Letters in two folio volumes , magnificently bound . This was the time for my good father , who I verily think never ...
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... ladies kept , I might as well have boarded in the convent of La Trappe . I confess my spirits felt the gloomy influence of the sphere I lived in , and my nights were particularly long and heavy , annoyed as they were by the yells and ...
... ladies kept , I might as well have boarded in the convent of La Trappe . I confess my spirits felt the gloomy influence of the sphere I lived in , and my nights were particularly long and heavy , annoyed as they were by the yells and ...
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