Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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Page 52
... parties rather than in the commitment of persons : in those quiet parts offences were in general trivial , and the differences merely such as an attorney could contrive to hook a suit upon , so that with a very little legal knowledge ...
... parties rather than in the commitment of persons : in those quiet parts offences were in general trivial , and the differences merely such as an attorney could contrive to hook a suit upon , so that with a very little legal knowledge ...
Page 58
... parties now make their respec- tive appeals , and Shakespear finally summons them all before him by his agent Ariel , for whose introduction he prepares the audience by the following soliloquy- " Now comes the period of my high ...
... parties now make their respec- tive appeals , and Shakespear finally summons them all before him by his agent Ariel , for whose introduction he prepares the audience by the following soliloquy- " Now comes the period of my high ...
Page 72
... party of my school - fellows for the unjustifiable purpose of intruding ourselves upon a meeting of quakers at their devotions . We had not been guilty of any gross imperti- nence , but the offence was highly reprehen- sible , and when ...
... party of my school - fellows for the unjustifiable purpose of intruding ourselves upon a meeting of quakers at their devotions . We had not been guilty of any gross imperti- nence , but the offence was highly reprehen- sible , and when ...
Page 74
... party . In the mean while it seemed a point of honour with the boys neither to inflame nor insult each other's feelings on this occasion , and I must consider the decorum observed by such young partisans on such an occasion as a ...
... party . In the mean while it seemed a point of honour with the boys neither to inflame nor insult each other's feelings on this occasion , and I must consider the decorum observed by such young partisans on such an occasion as a ...
Page 89
... party , while Mr. Ashby , my father's nephew , staid in town and attended the body of his lamented cousin to the grave . My surviving sisters , Elizabeth and Mary , the elder of whom was six years younger than my- self , had been left ...
... party , while Mr. Ashby , my father's nephew , staid in town and attended the body of his lamented cousin to the grave . My surviving sisters , Elizabeth and Mary , the elder of whom was six years younger than my- self , had been left ...
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