Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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... mother , for roundly asserting that I never slept , I remem- ber full well his calling on me to account for it ; and when I explained it by saying I never knew myself to be asleep , and therefore sup- posed I never slept at all , he ...
... mother , for roundly asserting that I never slept , I remem- ber full well his calling on me to account for it ; and when I explained it by saying I never knew myself to be asleep , and therefore sup- posed I never slept at all , he ...
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... mother say he took great de- light in hearing them read to him , and was so particularly amused by the character of Sir Ro- . ger de Coverley , that he took his literary de- cease most seriously to heart . She also told me , that , when ...
... mother say he took great de- light in hearing them read to him , and was so particularly amused by the character of Sir Ro- . ger de Coverley , that he took his literary de- cease most seriously to heart . She also told me , that , when ...
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... mother being present and voucher of the fact , she breathed out her soul ina kind of beatific vision , exclaiming in rapture as she expired - It is all bright , it is all glorious !: ? I was frequently called upon by her to re- peat ...
... mother being present and voucher of the fact , she breathed out her soul ina kind of beatific vision , exclaiming in rapture as she expired - It is all bright , it is all glorious !: ? I was frequently called upon by her to re- peat ...
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... 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 pastoral , was my mother . I will not violate the allegiance I have vowed to truth in giving ...
... 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 pastoral , was my mother . I will not violate the allegiance I have vowed to truth in giving ...
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... , so named from his mother , was my father . He was educated at West- minster school , and from that admitted fel- low - commoner of Trinity College in Cam- bridge . 26 MEMOIRS OF : to devote a portion of her time to the reading ...
... , so named from his mother , was my father . He was educated at West- minster school , and from that admitted fel- low - commoner of Trinity College in Cam- bridge . 26 MEMOIRS OF : to devote a portion of her time to the reading ...
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