Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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Page 5
... short sketch of the bi- shop's life , which he has prefixed to his edition of The Sanchoniatho . This and his other works are in the hands of the learned , and cannot need any effort on my part to eluci- date what they so clearly ...
... short sketch of the bi- shop's life , which he has prefixed to his edition of The Sanchoniatho . This and his other works are in the hands of the learned , and cannot need any effort on my part to eluci- date what they so clearly ...
Page 7
... short , his mind was fitted for elaborate and profound researches , as his works more fully testify . It is to be lamented that his famous work , de legibus Nature , was allowed to come before the public with so many and such glar- ing ...
... short , his mind was fitted for elaborate and profound researches , as his works more fully testify . It is to be lamented that his famous work , de legibus Nature , was allowed to come before the public with so many and such glar- ing ...
Page 48
... short of a hundred lines , and was written at such times as I could snatch a few minutes from my business or I did not like to risk the conse- quences of confiding it to my school - fellows , but kept it closely secret till the next ...
... short of a hundred lines , and was written at such times as I could snatch a few minutes from my business or I did not like to risk the conse- quences of confiding it to my school - fellows , but kept it closely secret till the next ...
Page 49
... short time after , not indeed for having violated the truth , but for suppressing it , and my dilemma was occasioned by the following circumstance . I had picked up an epigram amongst my school fellows , which struck my fancy , and ...
... short time after , not indeed for having violated the truth , but for suppressing it , and my dilemma was occasioned by the following circumstance . I had picked up an epigram amongst my school fellows , which struck my fancy , and ...
Page 53
... short dis- tance no boy in Bury School could match me , and , when at Cambridge , I gave a general challenge to the Collegians , which was decided in Trinity Walks in my favour . Those field sports , of which the young and active are ...
... short dis- tance no boy in Bury School could match me , and , when at Cambridge , I gave a general challenge to the Collegians , which was decided in Trinity Walks in my favour . Those field sports , of which the young and active are ...
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