Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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... death in his bureau , with directions to employ it for the discharge of his funeral expences ; a sum , in his modest calculation , fully sufficient to commit his body to the earth . Such was the humility of this truly christian prelate ...
... death in his bureau , with directions to employ it for the discharge of his funeral expences ; a sum , in his modest calculation , fully sufficient to commit his body to the earth . Such was the humility of this truly christian prelate ...
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... death of this venerable prelate was , like his life , serene and undisturbed : at the extended age of eighty - six years and some months , as he was sitting in his library , he ex- pired without a struggle , for he was found in B 3 ...
... death of this venerable prelate was , like his life , serene and undisturbed : at the extended age of eighty - six years and some months , as he was sitting in his library , he ex- pired without a struggle , for he was found in B 3 ...
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... death of this exemplary lady preceded that of my grandfather by a few years only , and by her he had one son , Richard , and two daughters , Elizabeth and Joanna . Richard was a man of various and considerable accom- plishments ; he had ...
... death of this exemplary lady preceded that of my grandfather by a few years only , and by her he had one son , Richard , and two daughters , Elizabeth and Joanna . Richard was a man of various and considerable accom- plishments ; he had ...
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... death . She inherited the virtues and benignity of her 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 ...
... death . She inherited the virtues and benignity of her 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 ...
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... death , and of their surviving even that I should be loth to lose the hope . I was become capable of under- standing my grandfather to be the great man he really was , and began to listen to him with attention , and treasure up his ...
... death , and of their surviving even that I should be loth to lose the hope . I was become capable of under- standing my grandfather to be the great man he really was , and began to listen to him with attention , and treasure up his ...
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