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... Manners - Lord Charlemont - A Country Life - On Subordination - Rev . Mr. Horne - Dr . Mead- General Burgoyne's Army- " Rasselas " and " Candide " -Francis's Horace - Mr . Fullarton - Lord Chatham - Education - Boswell's Departure for ...
... Manners - Lord Charlemont - A Country Life - On Subordination - Rev . Mr. Horne - Dr . Mead- General Burgoyne's Army- " Rasselas " and " Candide " -Francis's Horace - Mr . Fullarton - Lord Chatham - Education - Boswell's Departure for ...
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... manners was genteel . As a proof of this , Sir , Lord Mulgrave and he dined one day at Streatham ; they sat with their backs to the light fronting me , so that I could not see dis- tinctly and there was so little of the savage in Omai ...
... manners was genteel . As a proof of this , Sir , Lord Mulgrave and he dined one day at Streatham ; they sat with their backs to the light fronting me , so that I could not see dis- tinctly and there was so little of the savage in Omai ...
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... manner we find them represented in the poets . The people would not have suffered it . They disputed with good humour upon the fanciful theories , because they were not interested in the truth of them : when a man has nothing to lose he ...
... manner we find them represented in the poets . The people would not have suffered it . They disputed with good humour upon the fanciful theories , because they were not interested in the truth of them : when a man has nothing to lose he ...
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... manner ; but his arguments preponderated so much in favour of the benefit which a boy of good parts might receive at one of them , that I have reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his ...
... manner ; but his arguments preponderated so much in favour of the benefit which a boy of good parts might receive at one of them , that I have reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his ...
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... manner , a man who is to get nothing by teaching will not exert himself . Gresham college was intended as a place of instruction for London ; able professors were to read lectures gratis ; they contrived to have no scholars ; whereas if ...
... manner , a man who is to get nothing by teaching will not exert himself . Gresham college was intended as a place of instruction for London ; able professors were to read lectures gratis ; they contrived to have no scholars ; whereas if ...
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