Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Brisban and Brannan [Printed by Robert Carr], 1805 - 356 pages |
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... perfect recollection . His person , his dignity , his language and his love fixed my early atten- tion , and stamped both his image and his words upon my memory . His literary works are known to all , his private character is still ...
... perfect recollection . His person , his dignity , his language and his love fixed my early atten- tion , and stamped both his image and his words upon my memory . His literary works are known to all , his private character is still ...
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... perfect serenity of 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 ...
... perfect serenity of 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 ...
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... perfect recollection of the person of my grandmother , and a full impression of her manners and habits , which , though in some degree tinctured with hereditary reserve and the primitive cast of character , were entirely free from the ...
... perfect recollection of the person of my grandmother , and a full impression of her manners and habits , which , though in some degree tinctured with hereditary reserve and the primitive cast of character , were entirely free from the ...
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... perfect gentleman , but there was a certain eccentricity and want of worldly prudence in my uncle's character , that involved him in distresses , and reduced him to situations uncongenial with his feel- ings , and unpropitious to the ...
... perfect gentleman , but there was a certain eccentricity and want of worldly prudence in my uncle's character , that involved him in distresses , and reduced him to situations uncongenial with his feel- ings , and unpropitious to the ...
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... perfect a resem- blance of him in goodness , as he did in person : in moral purity he was truly a Christian , in generosity and honour he was perfectly a gentleman . On the nineteenth day of February 1732 , I was born in the Mas- ter's ...
... perfect a resem- blance of him in goodness , as he did in person : in moral purity he was truly a Christian , in generosity and honour he was perfectly a gentleman . On the nineteenth day of February 1732 , I was born in the Mas- ter's ...
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