Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes, Том 6author, 1831 |
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... learned languages and theology with such diligence as to pass a very close examination before Bishop Ross with marked approbation . His first appointment was to the curacy of Constantine in Cornwall ; from whence he removed into ...
... learned languages and theology with such diligence as to pass a very close examination before Bishop Ross with marked approbation . His first appointment was to the curacy of Constantine in Cornwall ; from whence he removed into ...
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... learned in the estimation of his contemporaries , the best poet of his age ( although he who " exhausted worlds and then imagined new " is now , by the suffrage of posterity , preferred to a seat so vastly superior , ) a standard ...
... learned in the estimation of his contemporaries , the best poet of his age ( although he who " exhausted worlds and then imagined new " is now , by the suffrage of posterity , preferred to a seat so vastly superior , ) a standard ...
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... learned from my mother that , after a residence of four or five years , he was again thoughtless enough to engage in a dangerous frolic , which drove him once more to sea . This was an attempt to excite a riot in a Methodist chapel ...
... learned from my mother that , after a residence of four or five years , he was again thoughtless enough to engage in a dangerous frolic , which drove him once more to sea . This was an attempt to excite a riot in a Methodist chapel ...
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... learned little at school , and nothing at home , though he would now and then attempt to give me some insight into the business . As impres- sions of any kind are not very strong at the age of eleven or twelve , I did not long feel his ...
... learned little at school , and nothing at home , though he would now and then attempt to give me some insight into the business . As impres- sions of any kind are not very strong at the age of eleven or twelve , I did not long feel his ...
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... learned on my arrival ; and my heart , which had been cruelly shut up , now opened to kinder sentiments , and fairer views . God " After the holidays I returned to my darling pursuit , arith- metic ; my progress was now so rapid , that ...
... learned on my arrival ; and my heart , which had been cruelly shut up , now opened to kinder sentiments , and fairer views . God " After the holidays I returned to my darling pursuit , arith- metic ; my progress was now so rapid , that ...
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