Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Brisban and Brannan [Printed by Robert Carr], 1805 - 356 pages |
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... mind was fitted for elaborate and profound researches , as his works more fully testify . It is to be lamented that his famous work , De Legibus Nature , was allowed to come before the public with so many and such glaring errors of the ...
... mind was fitted for elaborate and profound researches , as his works more fully testify . It is to be lamented that his famous work , De Legibus Nature , was allowed to come before the public with so many and such glaring errors of the ...
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... mind , and fixing it more firmly in my memory , than if I had been bawling it out 66 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 ...
... mind , and fixing it more firmly in my memory , than if I had been bawling it out 66 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 ...
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... mind and equability of temper . He never dic- tated topics of conversation to the company he was with , but tool them up as they came in his way , and was a patient listener to other people's discourse , however trivial or uninteresting ...
... mind and equability of temper . He never dic- tated topics of conversation to the company he was with , but tool them up as they came in his way , and was a patient listener to other people's discourse , however trivial or uninteresting ...
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... mind , and perfectly recollect the revolt I received from reading of the Heathen Idols , described in the 115th psalm as having eyes and not seeing , ears , and not hearing , with other contrarieties , which between positive and ...
... mind , and perfectly recollect the revolt I received from reading of the Heathen Idols , described in the 115th psalm as having eyes and not seeing , ears , and not hearing , with other contrarieties , which between positive and ...
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... mind , or from 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 ...
... mind , or from 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 ...
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