The Sexagenarian: Or, The Recollections of a Literary Life ...F.C. and J. Rivington, 1818 |
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... success , that it introduced him to the notice of an excellent and venerable prelate , who has be- fore been named , and who always cagerly sought opportunities of distinguishing and rewarding lite- rary exertions , particularly such as ...
... success , that it introduced him to the notice of an excellent and venerable prelate , who has be- fore been named , and who always cagerly sought opportunities of distinguishing and rewarding lite- rary exertions , particularly such as ...
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... success . He was , however , seized with a violent and dangerous sickness , which prevented his appearing on the hustings on the day of nomina- tion . On this day , however , Mr. Richard Oliver , the subject of the present sketch ...
... success . He was , however , seized with a violent and dangerous sickness , which prevented his appearing on the hustings on the day of nomina- tion . On this day , however , Mr. Richard Oliver , the subject of the present sketch ...
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... success , there was nothing in the line of his profession too lofty for his pretensions , and which the connections and friendships he had formed , might not easily have procured . But though not more proud than became a man so endowed ...
... success , there was nothing in the line of his profession too lofty for his pretensions , and which the connections and friendships he had formed , might not easily have procured . But though not more proud than became a man so endowed ...
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... success , than such as profess to detail the disco- veries of regions before unknown ; which describe the manners of those nations with whom we are less perfectly acquainted , thus combining , at the same time , information with ...
... success , than such as profess to detail the disco- veries of regions before unknown ; which describe the manners of those nations with whom we are less perfectly acquainted , thus combining , at the same time , information with ...
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... success . It was whimsical enough , that never having ac- quired a sufficient knowledge of the English lan- guage , to read or converse in it without any offen- sive intermixture of the foreign idiom , he should have valuable preferment ...
... success . It was whimsical enough , that never having ac- quired a sufficient knowledge of the English lan- guage , to read or converse in it without any offen- sive intermixture of the foreign idiom , he should have valuable preferment ...
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