Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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... cause to congratulate myself for having so happily bestowed it . Of Doctor Richard Bentley , my maternal grandfather , I shall next take leave to speak , Of him I have perfect recollection . His per- son , his dignity , his language and ...
... cause to congratulate myself for having so happily bestowed it . Of Doctor Richard Bentley , my maternal grandfather , I shall next take leave to speak , Of him I have perfect recollection . His per- son , his dignity , his language and ...
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... cause to love her , and lament her death . She inherited the virtues and benignity of her mother , with habits more adapted to the fashions of the world . Joanna , the younger of Dr. Bentley's daugh- ters , and the Phoebe of Byron's ...
... cause to love her , and lament her death . She inherited the virtues and benignity of her mother , with habits more adapted to the fashions of the world . Joanna , the younger of Dr. Bentley's daugh- ters , and the Phoebe of Byron's ...
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... cause , and persisted in a stubborn repugnance to all instruction . My mother's good sense and my grandfather's good advice concurred in the measures to be taken with me in this state of mutiny against all the powers of the alphabet ...
... cause , and persisted in a stubborn repugnance to all instruction . My mother's good sense and my grandfather's good advice concurred in the measures to be taken with me in this state of mutiny against all the powers of the alphabet ...
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... cause more natural I know not : I was however laid up in a sick bed for a considerable time , and in that piteous situation visited by my mother , who came from Cambridge on the alarm , and under her ten- der care I at length regained ...
... cause more natural I know not : I was however laid up in a sick bed for a considerable time , and in that piteous situation visited by my mother , who came from Cambridge on the alarm , and under her ten- der care I at length regained ...
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... caused me always to be prepared against it , and I held possession of my post under a sus- pended sword , that hourly menaced me with- out ever dropping . Whilst I dwell on the detail of anecdotes like the above I must refer myself to ...
... caused me always to be prepared against it , and I held possession of my post under a sus- pended sword , that hourly menaced me with- out ever dropping . Whilst I dwell on the detail of anecdotes like the above I must refer myself to ...
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