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... remember right , " when the originals may be examined . I beg leave to express my warmest thanks to those who have been pleased to favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my work . But I cannot sufficiently ...
... remember right , " when the originals may be examined . I beg leave to express my warmest thanks to those who have been pleased to favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my work . But I cannot sufficiently ...
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... remember , ' says Hale , ' when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal , that there is likewise a pity due to the country . ' If we owe regard to the memory of the dead , there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge , to virtue ...
... remember , ' says Hale , ' when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal , that there is likewise a pity due to the country . ' If we owe regard to the memory of the dead , there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge , to virtue ...
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... remember Miss Mary Adye as Mrs. Sneyd - she died in 1830 - informs me that he knew also the Rev. Henry White , to whom we owe the account of Johnson's penance at Uttoxeter ; from him Mr. Simpson heard the Sacheverel story , which came ...
... remember Miss Mary Adye as Mrs. Sneyd - she died in 1830 - informs me that he knew also the Rev. Henry White , to whom we owe the account of Johnson's penance at Uttoxeter ; from him Mr. Simpson heard the Sacheverel story , which came ...
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... remember Queen Anne , - " He had , " he said , " a confused , but somehow a sort of solemn " Dr. Swinfen told me " -so Johnson says in his own Account of his Early Life , p . 12- " that the scrofulous sores which afflicted me ...
... remember Queen Anne , - " He had , " he said , " a confused , but somehow a sort of solemn " Dr. Swinfen told me " -so Johnson says in his own Account of his Early Life , p . 12- " that the scrofulous sores which afflicted me ...
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... remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little pause , he repeated verbatim , varying only one epithet , by which he improved the line . He never joined with the other boys in their ordinary diver- sions ; his ...
... remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little pause , he repeated verbatim , varying only one epithet , by which he improved the line . He never joined with the other boys in their ordinary diver- sions ; his ...
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