Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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... happy art of relating them ; her invention was so fertile , her ideas so original and the points of humour so ingeniously and unexpectedly taken up in the progress of her narrative , that she never failed to accomplish all the purposes ...
... happy art of relating them ; her invention was so fertile , her ideas so original and the points of humour so ingeniously and unexpectedly taken up in the progress of her narrative , that she never failed to accomplish all the purposes ...
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... happy faculty , which she possessed , of making every doctrine pleasant , every duty sweet , that what some instructors would have represented as a burden and a yoke , she contrived to recommend as a recreation and delight . All that ...
... happy faculty , which she possessed , of making every doctrine pleasant , every duty sweet , that what some instructors would have represented as a burden and a yoke , she contrived to recommend as a recreation and delight . All that ...
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... happy consequences of my worthy master's seasonable admonition . After the decease of Mrs. Bentley , my mo- ther , whose devotion to her father was return . ed by the warmest affection on his part , passed 36 MEMOIRS OF der the eye of ...
... happy consequences of my worthy master's seasonable admonition . After the decease of Mrs. Bentley , my mo- ther , whose devotion to her father was return . ed by the warmest affection on his part , passed 36 MEMOIRS OF der the eye of ...
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... happy village , which being seated between the more populous and less correct parishes of Raunds and Hig- ham - Ferrers , he used appositely to call Little Zoar , but made no further allusions to the evil neighbourhood of Zoar . " In ...
... happy village , which being seated between the more populous and less correct parishes of Raunds and Hig- ham - Ferrers , he used appositely to call Little Zoar , but made no further allusions to the evil neighbourhood of Zoar . " In ...
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... happy hours and interesting lectures to me , whilst my beloved father , ever placid and complacent , sate beside us , and took part in our amusement : his voice was never heard but in the tone of approbation ; his countenance never ...
... happy hours and interesting lectures to me , whilst my beloved father , ever placid and complacent , sate beside us , and took part in our amusement : his voice was never heard but in the tone of approbation ; his countenance never ...
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