Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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... hands of the learned , and cannot need any effort on my part to eluci- date what they so clearly display , the vast erudition and patient investigation of their au- thor . The death of this venerable prelate was , like his life , serene ...
... hands of the learned , and cannot need any effort on my part to eluci- date what they so clearly display , the vast erudition and patient investigation of their au- thor . The death of this venerable prelate was , like his life , serene ...
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... hand , in which he had been reading . Thus , without the or- dinary visitations of pain or sickness , it pleased God to terminate the existence of this exem- plary man . He possessed his faculties to the last , veri- fying the only ...
... hand , in which he had been reading . Thus , without the or- dinary visitations of pain or sickness , it pleased God to terminate the existence of this exem- plary man . He possessed his faculties to the last , veri- fying the only ...
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... . As for the hat , I must acknow- ledge it was of formidable dimensions , yet I was accustomed to treat it with great familia- rity , and if it had ever been further from the hand of its owner than the peg upon the back 8 MEMOIRS OF.
... . As for the hat , I must acknow- ledge it was of formidable dimensions , yet I was accustomed to treat it with great familia- rity , and if it had ever been further from the hand of its owner than the peg upon the back 8 MEMOIRS OF.
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Richard Cumberland. hand of its owner than the peg upon the back of his great arm - chair , I might have been dis- patched to fetch it , for he was disabled by the palsy in his latter days ... hand of its owner than the peg upon the back ...
Richard Cumberland. hand of its owner than the peg upon the back of his great arm - chair , I might have been dis- patched to fetch it , for he was disabled by the palsy in his latter days ... hand of its owner than the peg upon the back ...
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... hand - bell for his servant , and be led to his shelves to take down a picture - book for my amusement . I do not say that his good - nature always gained its ob- ject , as the pictures which his books generally supplied me with were ...
... hand - bell for his servant , and be led to his shelves to take down a picture - book for my amusement . I do not say that his good - nature always gained its ob- ject , as the pictures which his books generally supplied me with were ...
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