Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Brisban and Brannan [Printed by Robert Carr], 1805 - 356 pages |
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... style , I pursue my narrative , saying nothing more of the immediate object of these memoirs , than in honour and in conscience I am warranted to say . I shall use so little embellishment in this narrative , that if the reader is ...
... style , I pursue my narrative , saying nothing more of the immediate object of these memoirs , than in honour and in conscience I am warranted to say . I shall use so little embellishment in this narrative , that if the reader is ...
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... style of living , and had a table ever open to his clergy and his friends : he had a sweetness and placidity of temper , that nothing ever ruffled or disturbed . I know it cannot be the lot of human creature to attain perfection , yet ...
... style of living , and had a table ever open to his clergy and his friends : he had a sweetness and placidity of temper , that nothing ever ruffled or disturbed . I know it cannot be the lot of human creature to attain perfection , yet ...
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... style of conversation was naturally lofty , and his frequent use of thou and thee with his familiars carried with it a kind of dictatorial tone , that savoured more of the closet than the court ; this is readily admitted , and this on ...
... style of conversation was naturally lofty , and his frequent use of thou and thee with his familiars carried with it a kind of dictatorial tone , that savoured more of the closet than the court ; this is readily admitted , and this on ...
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... style in setting forth his school , and once in conversation with my grandfather in Trinity Lodge , he was so unaccountably misled by the spirit of false prophecy , as to venture to say in a ral- lying kind of way- " Master , I will ...
... style in setting forth his school , and once in conversation with my grandfather in Trinity Lodge , he was so unaccountably misled by the spirit of false prophecy , as to venture to say in a ral- lying kind of way- " Master , I will ...
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... style and cast of the purer age . The tasks of a school - boy are of three descriptions ; he is to give the construction of his author , to study his repetitions , and to write what are called his exercises , whether in verse or prose ...
... style and cast of the purer age . The tasks of a school - boy are of three descriptions ; he is to give the construction of his author , to study his repetitions , and to write what are called his exercises , whether in verse or prose ...
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