Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 2Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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... turning home ; and this being a point decisive as to my credit or discredit in the management of the business I was entrusted with , I was most urgent and precise with Mr. Hussey in conjuring him to be extremely careful and cor- rect in ...
... turning home ; and this being a point decisive as to my credit or discredit in the management of the business I was entrusted with , I was most urgent and precise with Mr. Hussey in conjuring him to be extremely careful and cor- rect in ...
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... turning to me with an air of supercilious protection , very awk- wardly assumed , and making a motion with his hand towards a chair , he was pleased to tell me that I might sit down - There was an in- solence in the manner of it ...
... turning to me with an air of supercilious protection , very awk- wardly assumed , and making a motion with his hand towards a chair , he was pleased to tell me that I might sit down - There was an in- solence in the manner of it ...
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... turn , which matters have " taken , render this negociation every day ex- 66 ceedingly arduous and difficult . However as the minister is so very desirous of finding some means to bring it to a happy conclu- sion , and as you are ...
... turn , which matters have " taken , render this negociation every day ex- 66 ceedingly arduous and difficult . However as the minister is so very desirous of finding some means to bring it to a happy conclu- sion , and as you are ...
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... turns . He ap " " pears to me totally to discredit the sincerity " of Spain towards any accommodation with " Great - Britain , and this opinion certainly " coloured his whole argument upon the sub- " ject : had we agreed in this ...
... turns . He ap " " pears to me totally to discredit the sincerity " of Spain towards any accommodation with " Great - Britain , and this opinion certainly " coloured his whole argument upon the sub- " ject : had we agreed in this ...
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... turning aside to the sub - minister Campo , held some conversation with him apart : he then re- sumed his discourse , but in a desultory way , and being one of the most irritable men living , was so entirely off his guard as to let out ...
... turning aside to the sub - minister Campo , held some conversation with him apart : he then re- sumed his discourse , but in a desultory way , and being one of the most irritable men living , was so entirely off his guard as to let out ...
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