Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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... give a history of my life and writings . I do not undertake the task lightly and without deliberation , for I have weighed the difficulties and am prepared to meet them . I have lived so long in this world , mixed so generally with ...
... give a history of my life and writings . I do not undertake the task lightly and without deliberation , for I have weighed the difficulties and am prepared to meet them . I have lived so long in this world , mixed so generally with ...
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... without noticing their appearance , and something having passed to give him offence against one of their number in particular , taking up the passage then under " immediate recitation , he echoed forth in a loud and 32 MEMOIRS OF.
... without noticing their appearance , and something having passed to give him offence against one of their number in particular , taking up the passage then under " immediate recitation , he echoed forth in a loud and 32 MEMOIRS OF.
Page 34
... give the flattest contradiction to his prophecy . Whereupon one day , which by me can never be forgotten , calling me up to him in his chair at the head of the school , he began with much solemnity and in a loud voice to lecture me very ...
... give the flattest contradiction to his prophecy . Whereupon one day , which by me can never be forgotten , calling me up to him in his chair at the head of the school , he began with much solemnity and in a loud voice to lecture me very ...
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... give the construction of his author , to study his repetitions , and to write what are called his exercises , whether in verse or prose . In the former two , the tasks of con- struing and saying by heart , it was the usage of our school ...
... give the construction of his author , to study his repetitions , and to write what are called his exercises , whether in verse or prose . In the former two , the tasks of con- struing and saying by heart , it was the usage of our school ...
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... an hundred ways with two . In repeating this epigram , which perhaps the reader can find an author for , I did not VOL . I. E give it out as my own , but it was RICHARD CUMBERLAND . 49 art of sinking, and it is clear I had ...
... an hundred ways with two . In repeating this epigram , which perhaps the reader can find an author for , I did not VOL . I. E give it out as my own , but it was RICHARD CUMBERLAND . 49 art of sinking, and it is clear I had ...
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