Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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Page 34
... expect him to make of me to my grandfather Bentley . I shuddered at the name , even at that early age so loved and so revered : I made no defence ; I had none to make , and he went thundering on , farther perhaps than he need to have ...
... expect him to make of me to my grandfather Bentley . I shuddered at the name , even at that early age so loved and so revered : I made no defence ; I had none to make , and he went thundering on , farther perhaps than he need to have ...
Page 36
... expect boys of a very early age to understand it as a body of rules , but merely as an exercise of memory ; yet it is well to imprint it on their memories , that they may more readily apply to it as they advance in their acquaintance ...
... expect boys of a very early age to understand it as a body of rules , but merely as an exercise of memory ; yet it is well to imprint it on their memories , that they may more readily apply to it as they advance in their acquaintance ...
Page 114
... expect a fellowship with the de- gree of Master of Arts . These views , so suited to my natural disposition , were now before me , and I dwelt upon them with entire content . Having now been in the habit of reading upon system , I ...
... expect a fellowship with the de- gree of Master of Arts . These views , so suited to my natural disposition , were now before me , and I dwelt upon them with entire content . Having now been in the habit of reading upon system , I ...
Page 127
... expect from me ; I clearly saw that his meaning was to bring me into the society a year before any one had been elected since the statutes were in existence ; I knew that by my election there must be an exclusion of some candidate of ...
... expect from me ; I clearly saw that his meaning was to bring me into the society a year before any one had been elected since the statutes were in existence ; I knew that by my election there must be an exclusion of some candidate of ...
Page 128
... expect the result . To this I looked forward with much more terror and alarm , than to all I had ex- perienced in the schools and theatre , for I not only stood in awe of the master of Trinity , as being the deepest mathematician of his ...
... expect the result . To this I looked forward with much more terror and alarm , than to all I had ex- perienced in the schools and theatre , for I not only stood in awe of the master of Trinity , as being the deepest mathematician of his ...
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