Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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Page 30
... mother ; my sis- ter Joanna was more than two years older than me , and more than twice two years be- fore me in apprehension , for whilst she pro- fited very rapidly by her mother's teaching , I by no means trode in her steps , but on ...
... mother ; my sis- ter Joanna was more than two years older than me , and more than twice two years be- fore me in apprehension , for whilst she pro- fited very rapidly by her mother's teaching , I by no means trode in her steps , but on ...
Page 31
... mother's tes- timony for saying that I repaid her patience . My family divided their time between Cam- bridge and Stanwick so long as my grandfather lived , and when I was turned of six years I was sent to the school at Bury St ...
... mother's tes- timony for saying that I repaid her patience . My family divided their time between Cam- bridge and Stanwick so long as my grandfather lived , and when I was turned of six years I was sent to the school at Bury St ...
Page 35
... mother , who came from Cambridge on the alarm , and under her ten- der care I at length regained both my spirits and my health . My mother now returned to Cambridge and I was taken into Kinsman's own house as a boarder , where being ...
... mother , who came from Cambridge on the alarm , and under her ten- der care I at length regained both my spirits and my health . My mother now returned to Cambridge and I was taken into Kinsman's own house as a boarder , where being ...
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... mother has frequent- ly in time past refreshed my recollection of it , that Joshua Barnes in the course of this con- versation being quoted by Kinsman as a man understanding Greek and speaking it almost like his mother tongue- " Yes ...
... mother has frequent- ly in time past refreshed my recollection of it , that Joshua Barnes in the course of this con- versation being quoted by Kinsman as a man understanding Greek and speaking it almost like his mother tongue- " Yes ...
Page 48
... One other lame and miserable couplet just now occurs to me , as being quoted frequently upon me by my mother as an instance in the art of sinking , and it is clear I had 48 MEMOIRS OF Hampshire, which engaged me in a description ...
... One other lame and miserable couplet just now occurs to me , as being quoted frequently upon me by my mother as an instance in the art of sinking , and it is clear I had 48 MEMOIRS OF Hampshire, which engaged me in a description ...
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