Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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... nature , re- ceived the first intelligence of his promotion from a paragraph in the public papers , and , being then sixty years old , was with difficulty persuaded to accept the offer , when it came to him from authority . The ...
... nature , re- ceived the first intelligence of his promotion from a paragraph in the public papers , and , being then sixty years old , was with difficulty persuaded to accept the offer , when it came to him from authority . The ...
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... nature with good wearing parts , he made no preten- sions to quick and brilliant talents , and in that respect he seems to have estimated himself very truly , as we rarely find such meek and modest qualities as he possessed in men of ...
... nature with good wearing parts , he made no preten- sions to quick and brilliant talents , and in that respect he seems to have estimated himself very truly , as we rarely find such meek and modest qualities as he possessed in men of ...
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... nature to treat him with contempt , nor did his harmless character inspire it . 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 ...
... nature to treat him with contempt , nor did his harmless character inspire it . 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 ...
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... natural to our age , and the questions it gave birth to , so teazing to many parents , he , on the contrary , attended to and encouraged , as the claims of infant reason never to be evaded or abused ; strongly re- commending , that to ...
... natural to our age , and the questions it gave birth to , so teazing to many parents , he , on the contrary , attended to and encouraged , as the claims of infant reason never to be evaded or abused ; strongly re- commending , that to ...
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... nature always gained its ob- ject , as the pictures which his books generally supplied me with were anatomical drawings of dissected bodies , very little calculated to com- municate delight ; but he had nothing better to produce ; and ...
... nature always gained its ob- ject , as the pictures which his books generally supplied me with were anatomical drawings of dissected bodies , very little calculated to com- municate delight ; but he had nothing better to produce ; and ...
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