Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Brisban and Brannan [Printed by Robert Carr], 1805 - 356 pages |
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... parties , rather than in the commitment of persons : in those quiet parts offences were in general trivial , and the differences merely such as an attorney could contrive to hook a suit upon , so that with a very little legal knowledge ...
... parties , rather than in the commitment of persons : in those quiet parts offences were in general trivial , and the differences merely such as an attorney could contrive to hook a suit upon , so that with a very little legal knowledge ...
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... parties now make their respective appeals , and Shakspeare finally summons them all before him by his agent Ariel , for whose introduction he prepares the audience by the following soliloquy- " Now comes the period of my high commission ...
... parties now make their respective appeals , and Shakspeare finally summons them all before him by his agent Ariel , for whose introduction he prepares the audience by the following soliloquy- " Now comes the period of my high commission ...
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... party of my school - fellows for the unjustifiable purpose of intruding our- selves upon a meeting of quakers at their devotions . We had not been guilty of any gross impertinence , but the offence was highly reprehensible , and when my ...
... party of my school - fellows for the unjustifiable purpose of intruding our- selves upon a meeting of quakers at their devotions . We had not been guilty of any gross impertinence , but the offence was highly reprehensible , and when my ...
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... party . In the mean while it seemed a point of honour with the boys neither to inflame nor insult each other's feelings on this occasion , and I must consider the de- corum observed by such young partisans on such an occasion as a ...
... party . In the mean while it seemed a point of honour with the boys neither to inflame nor insult each other's feelings on this occasion , and I must consider the de- corum observed by such young partisans on such an occasion as a ...
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... party , while Mr. Ashby , my father's nephew , staid in town and attended the body of his lamented cousin to the grave . My surviving sisters , Elizabeth and Mary , the elder of whom was six years younger than myself , had been left in ...
... party , while Mr. Ashby , my father's nephew , staid in town and attended the body of his lamented cousin to the grave . My surviving sisters , Elizabeth and Mary , the elder of whom was six years younger than myself , had been left in ...
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