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... universities , where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford , Dr. Adams , now master of Pembroke college , told me , I was the best qualified ÆTAT . 3-19 . ] 29 DR ...
... universities , where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford , Dr. Adams , now master of Pembroke college , told me , I was the best qualified ÆTAT . 3-19 . ] 29 DR ...
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... Pembroke college , on the thirty - first of Octo- ber , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year . The reverend Dr. Adams , who afterwards presided over Pembroke college with universal esteem , told me he was present , and gave me some ...
... Pembroke college , on the thirty - first of Octo- ber , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year . The reverend Dr. Adams , who afterwards presided over Pembroke college with universal esteem , told me he was present , and gave me some ...
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... Pembroke , was not , it seems , a man of such abilities as we should ... college , I waited upon him , and then staid away four . On the sixth , Mr ... Pembroke college , and exercises upon the subject of the day were required ...
... Pembroke , was not , it seems , a man of such abilities as we should ... college , I waited upon him , and then staid away four . On the sixth , Mr ... Pembroke college , and exercises upon the subject of the day were required ...
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... college twice over ; but he never took that trouble with any other ... Pembroke P He told Dr. Burney , that he never wrote any of his works that ... college was that upon the second floor over the gateway 40 [ 1729 . THE LIFE OF.
... college twice over ; but he never took that trouble with any other ... Pembroke P He told Dr. Burney , that he never wrote any of his works that ... college was that upon the second floor over the gateway 40 [ 1729 . THE LIFE OF.
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... Pembroke college , which he retained to the last . A short time before his death he sent to that college a present of all his works , to be de- posited in their library ; and he had thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but ...
... Pembroke college , which he retained to the last . A short time before his death he sent to that college a present of all his works , to be de- posited in their library ; and he had thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but ...
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