Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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... means , it shall find a passport to the University press , I shall have 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 ...
... means , it shall find a passport to the University press , I shall have 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 ...
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... mean time was respectable , and his table affluently and hospitably served . All these matters were conducted and arranged in the best manner possible by one of the best women living ; for such , by the testimony of all who knew her ...
... mean time was respectable , and his table affluently and hospitably served . All these matters were conducted and arranged in the best manner possible by one of the best women living ; for such , by the testimony of all who knew her ...
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... means trode in her steps , but on the contrary after a few unpromising efforts pe- remptorily gave up the cause , and persisted in a stubborn repugnance to all instruction . My mother's good sense and my grandfather's good advice ...
... means trode in her steps , but on the contrary after a few unpromising efforts pe- remptorily gave up the cause , and persisted in a stubborn repugnance to all instruction . My mother's good sense and my grandfather's good advice ...
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... mean time my heart fluttered with alarm and dread of that report , which he had once threatened to prefer against me nothing could be further from his generous thoughts , and as soon as ever he was D 3 RICHARD CUMBERLAND . 37 ed by the ...
... mean time my heart fluttered with alarm and dread of that report , which he had once threatened to prefer against me nothing could be further from his generous thoughts , and as soon as ever he was D 3 RICHARD CUMBERLAND . 37 ed by the ...
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... mean time , whose tongue conviviality had by no means tied up , began to open his school books upon Bentley , and had drawn him into Homer ; Greek now rolled in torrents from the lips of Bentley , and the most learned of mo derns ...
... mean time , whose tongue conviviality had by no means tied up , began to open his school books upon Bentley , and had drawn him into Homer ; Greek now rolled in torrents from the lips of Bentley , and the most learned of mo derns ...
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