The Sexagenarian: Or, The Recollections of a Literary Life ...F. C. and J. Rivington, 1817 |
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... CHAPTER I. THE next personage of whom some detached and mutilated memorandums present themselves , must be an object of conjecture , but the peculiari- ties concerning him are very striking , and the changes of his character and conduct ...
... CHAPTER I. THE next personage of whom some detached and mutilated memorandums present themselves , must be an object of conjecture , but the peculiari- ties concerning him are very striking , and the changes of his character and conduct ...
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... CHAPTER II . THE vicissitudes of fortune , of principles , and of conduct , which characterised the individual above introduced , not improbably brought to the recollee- tion of the Sexagenarian , another personage of still more ...
... CHAPTER II . THE vicissitudes of fortune , of principles , and of conduct , which characterised the individual above introduced , not improbably brought to the recollee- tion of the Sexagenarian , another personage of still more ...
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... CHAPTER III . A LITERARY life , like adversity , introduces a man to strange and opposite acquaintance . Genius , talent , and learning , are not limited to rank or sta- tion , and the ingenuous desire of receiving , as well as of ...
... CHAPTER III . A LITERARY life , like adversity , introduces a man to strange and opposite acquaintance . Genius , talent , and learning , are not limited to rank or sta- tion , and the ingenuous desire of receiving , as well as of ...
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... CHAPTER IV . JAMES T. of B. Castle , was the most extraordi- nary character of them all . He was of a good family , his father having been an opulent merchant , Alderman of London , and Member of Parliament . Whether this gentleman had ...
... CHAPTER IV . JAMES T. of B. Castle , was the most extraordi- nary character of them all . He was of a good family , his father having been an opulent merchant , Alderman of London , and Member of Parliament . Whether this gentleman had ...
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... CHAPTER V. IT can hardly be a matter of astonishment , that from mixing a great deal with the above individuals , and as well from family connection , as from re- peated assurances of independence , the mind of a young and inexperienced ...
... CHAPTER V. IT can hardly be a matter of astonishment , that from mixing a great deal with the above individuals , and as well from family connection , as from re- peated assurances of independence , the mind of a young and inexperienced ...
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