Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Brisban and Brannan [Printed by Robert Carr], 1805 - 356 pages |
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... his memory , in the chapel of Trinity College , Doctor Bentley has recorded his sorrows and those of the whole learned world in the following beautiful and pathetic epitaph : H. S. E. " Rogerus Roberti filius Cotes , Hujus MEMOIRS OF.
... his memory , in the chapel of Trinity College , Doctor Bentley has recorded his sorrows and those of the whole learned world in the following beautiful and pathetic epitaph : H. S. E. " Rogerus Roberti filius Cotes , Hujus MEMOIRS OF.
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... whole life was modelled on the purest principles of piety , benevolence and Christian charity ; and in her dying moments , my mother being present and voucher of the fact , she breathed out her soul in a kind of beatific vision ...
... whole life was modelled on the purest principles of piety , benevolence and Christian charity ; and in her dying moments , my mother being present and voucher of the fact , she breathed out her soul in a kind of beatific vision ...
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... whole spirit of his grandfather's benevolence had been transfused into his heart , and that he bore as perfect a resem- blance of him in goodness , as he did in person : in moral purity he was truly a Christian , in generosity and ...
... whole spirit of his grandfather's benevolence had been transfused into his heart , and that he bore as perfect a resem- blance of him in goodness , as he did in person : in moral purity he was truly a Christian , in generosity and ...
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... whole course of my progress through the upper school never once lost my place of head boy , though daily challenged by those , who were as anxious to dislodge me from my post as I was to maintain myself in it . As I have the honour to ...
... whole course of my progress through the upper school never once lost my place of head boy , though daily challenged by those , who were as anxious to dislodge me from my post as I was to maintain myself in it . As I have the honour to ...
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... whole time . He had a great partiality for that nervous author , and I remember his reciting the following passage in a kind of rapturous enthusiasm in the ears of all the school , crying out that he defied the writers of the Augustan ...
... whole time . He had a great partiality for that nervous author , and I remember his reciting the following passage in a kind of rapturous enthusiasm in the ears of all the school , crying out that he defied the writers of the Augustan ...
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