Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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... wish to emerge from his obscu- rity and retirement , this excellent man , the vindicator of the insulted laws of nature , re- ceived the first intelligence of his promotion from a paragraph in the public papers , and , being then sixty ...
... wish to emerge from his obscu- rity and retirement , this excellent man , the vindicator of the insulted laws of nature , re- ceived the first intelligence of his promotion from a paragraph in the public papers , and , being then sixty ...
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... wish he had consigned it to oblivion . Though I have no copy of this childish per- formance , I bear in my remembrance two in- troductory couplets , which were the first En- glish lines I ever wrote , and are as follows- Since every ...
... wish he had consigned it to oblivion . Though I have no copy of this childish per- formance , I bear in my remembrance two in- troductory couplets , which were the first En- glish lines I ever wrote , and are as follows- Since every ...
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... wish to go , or the leaps I would avoid to take . At length when age added strength and prac- tice gave address , falls became familiar to me , and I left both fear and prudence behind me in the pleasures of the chace . It was in these ...
... wish to go , or the leaps I would avoid to take . At length when age added strength and prac- tice gave address , falls became familiar to me , and I left both fear and prudence behind me in the pleasures of the chace . It was in these ...
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... wish to earn a name in literature : I had studied books ; I had not studied men , and perhaps I was too much disposed to measure my respect for their characters by the standard of their talents . I had no acquaintance with the noble ...
... wish to earn a name in literature : I had studied books ; I had not studied men , and perhaps I was too much disposed to measure my respect for their characters by the standard of their talents . I had no acquaintance with the noble ...
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... wishes at the close of it . It would hardly be excusable in me to detail a process , that takes place every year , but that in this instance the novelty of our case made it matter of very general attention . When the day of examination ...
... wishes at the close of it . It would hardly be excusable in me to detail a process , that takes place every year , but that in this instance the novelty of our case made it matter of very general attention . When the day of examination ...
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