Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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... speak freely and impartially . I know myself incapable of wan- tonly aspersing the characters of the living or the ... speaking the truth from my heart : may not always say all that I could , but I will never knowingly say of any man ...
... speak freely and impartially . I know myself incapable of wan- tonly aspersing the characters of the living or the ... speaking the truth from my heart : may not always say all that I could , but I will never knowingly say of any man ...
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... speak , Of him I have perfect recollection . His per- son , his dignity , his language and his love fixed my early attention , and stamped both his image B 4 RICHARD 7 CUMBERLAND . present a copy of that portrait from which the ...
... speak , Of him I have perfect recollection . His per- son , his dignity , his language and his love fixed my early attention , and stamped both his image B 4 RICHARD 7 CUMBERLAND . present a copy of that portrait from which the ...
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... speak professedly of myself . 4 Here then for awhile I pause for self - exami- nation , and to weigh the task I am about to undertake . I look into my heart ; I search my understanding ; I review my life , my la- bours , the talents I ...
... speak professedly of myself . 4 Here then for awhile I pause for self - exami- nation , and to weigh the task I am about to undertake . I look into my heart ; I search my understanding ; I review my life , my la- bours , the talents I ...
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... speaking it almost like his mother tongue- " Yes , " replied Bent- ley , " I do believe that Barnes had as much Greek , and understood it about as well , as 66 an Athenian blacksmith . " Of Pope's Homer he said D 4 RICHARD CUMBERLAND ...
... speaking it almost like his mother tongue- " Yes , " replied Bent- ley , " I do believe that Barnes had as much Greek , and understood it about as well , as 66 an Athenian blacksmith . " Of Pope's Homer he said D 4 RICHARD CUMBERLAND ...
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... speak my heart's unfeign'd contrition , " Then might I lay the bleeding part before you ; " But ' twill not be - something I yet would say " To extenuate my crime ; I fain would plead " The merit of my love - but I have done- " However ...
... speak my heart's unfeign'd contrition , " Then might I lay the bleeding part before you ; " But ' twill not be - something I yet would say " To extenuate my crime ; I fain would plead " The merit of my love - but I have done- " However ...
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