Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Brisban and Brannan [Printed by Robert Carr], 1805 - 356 pages |
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... hands of the learn- ed , and cannot need any effort on my part to elucidate what they so clearly display , the vast ... hand , in which he had been reading . Thus , without the ordinary visitations of pain or sick- ness , it pleased God ...
... hands of the learn- ed , and cannot need any effort on my part to elucidate what they so clearly display , the vast ... hand , in which he had been reading . Thus , without the ordinary visitations of pain or sick- ness , it pleased God ...
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... hand of its owner than the peg upon the back of his great arm - chair , I might have been dispatched to fetch it , for he was disabled by the palsy in his latter days ; but the hat never strayed from its place , and Pope found an office ...
... hand of its owner than the peg upon the back of his great arm - chair , I might have been dispatched to fetch it , for he was disabled by the palsy in his latter days ; but the hat never strayed from its place , and Pope found an office ...
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... hand - bell for his servant , and be led to his shelves to take down a picture - book for my amusement . I do not say that his good - nature always gained its object , as the pictures which his books generally supplied me with were ...
... hand - bell for his servant , and be led to his shelves to take down a picture - book for my amusement . I do not say that his good - nature always gained its object , as the pictures which his books generally supplied me with were ...
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... hand ; it lies no fur- ther off than to his works , and they are upon every reading - man's shelves ; but those , who would have looked into his heart , should have stepped into his house , and seen him in his private and domes- tic ...
... hand ; it lies no fur- ther off than to his works , and they are upon every reading - man's shelves ; but those , who would have looked into his heart , should have stepped into his house , and seen him in his private and domes- tic ...
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... hand , now hanging in the Master's lodge of Trinity , were the bequest of Doctor Bentley . I was pos- sessed of letters in Sir Isaac's own hand to my grandfather , which together with the corrected volume of bishop Cumberland's Laws of ...
... hand , now hanging in the Master's lodge of Trinity , were the bequest of Doctor Bentley . I was pos- sessed of letters in Sir Isaac's own hand to my grandfather , which together with the corrected volume of bishop Cumberland's Laws of ...
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