Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 854 pages |
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... Thrale , one of the most eminent brewers in England , and member of Parliament for the borough of South- wark . Johnson used to give this account of the rise of Mr. Thrale's father : He worked at six shillings a · · week for twenty ...
... Thrale , one of the most eminent brewers in England , and member of Parliament for the borough of South- wark . Johnson used to give this account of the rise of Mr. Thrale's father : He worked at six shillings a · · week for twenty ...
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... Thrale , a sen- sible , active , honest man , who had been employed in the house , and to transfer the whole to him for thirty thousand pounds , security being taken upon the pro- perty . This was accordingly settled . In eleven years ...
... Thrale , a sen- sible , active , honest man , who had been employed in the house , and to transfer the whole to him for thirty thousand pounds , security being taken upon the pro- perty . This was accordingly settled . In eleven years ...
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... Thrale family who died between 1676 and 1704 , adorned with a shield of arms and a crest on a ducal coronet . Mrs. Thrale's marginal note on Boswell's ac- count of her husband's family is curious and cha- racteristic : 6 " Edmund Halsey ...
... Thrale family who died between 1676 and 1704 , adorned with a shield of arms and a crest on a ducal coronet . Mrs. Thrale's marginal note on Boswell's ac- count of her husband's family is curious and cha- racteristic : 6 " Edmund Halsey ...
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... Thrale , however , as these fine writers call him , -then a young fellow , and , like his uncle , eminent for personal beauty , -made himself so useful to Mr. Halsey that the weight of the business fell entirely on him ; and while ...
... Thrale , however , as these fine writers call him , -then a young fellow , and , like his uncle , eminent for personal beauty , -made himself so useful to Mr. Halsey that the weight of the business fell entirely on him ; and while ...
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... Thrale had married Miss Hester Lynch Salusbury , of good Welsh extraction , a lady of lively talents , improved by edu- cation . That Johnson's introduction into Mr. Thrale's family , which contributed so much to the happiness of his ...
... Thrale had married Miss Hester Lynch Salusbury , of good Welsh extraction , a lady of lively talents , improved by edu- cation . That Johnson's introduction into Mr. Thrale's family , which contributed so much to the happiness of his ...
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