General Biography: Or Lives, Critical And Historical, Of The Most Eminent Persons Of All Ages, Countries, Conditions And Professions, Arranged According To Alphabetical Order, Volume 9Robinson, 1814 - 644 pages |
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... friend the learned Dr. Hammond , who was desirous of entering with him into a free discussion of various points debated ... friends , who wished to check his bountiful spirit , by reminding him that he had a wife and children but meanly ...
... friend the learned Dr. Hammond , who was desirous of entering with him into a free discussion of various points debated ... friends , who wished to check his bountiful spirit , by reminding him that he had a wife and children but meanly ...
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... friend , he could repeat all the Odes of Horace , and much of Juvenal and Persius without book ; and he was used to say ... friends . " By the worthiest and most learned of his contemporaries he is spoken of in the most respectful terms ...
... friend , he could repeat all the Odes of Horace , and much of Juvenal and Persius without book ; and he was used to say ... friends . " By the worthiest and most learned of his contemporaries he is spoken of in the most respectful terms ...
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... friends . He was now , however , obliged to remit a little from his usual application : for , by too intense study ... friendship . This man , while Paul was at Rome , had been guilty of corrupt practices in the monastery , which he was ...
... friends . He was now , however , obliged to remit a little from his usual application : for , by too intense study ... friendship . This man , while Paul was at Rome , had been guilty of corrupt practices in the monastery , which he was ...
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... friends . On the evening of Jan. 14 . 1623 , being told by his physician that he would not survive the night , he discovered the most placid submission to the will of God , and wished his friends to withdraw , that they might not have ...
... friends . On the evening of Jan. 14 . 1623 , being told by his physician that he would not survive the night , he discovered the most placid submission to the will of God , and wished his friends to withdraw , that they might not have ...
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... friends , therefore , be- gan to think of fixing him in some situation where he might be able to support himself ; and as his inclination led him strongly to Cam- bridge , it was determined that he should try his fortune there , not as ...
... friends , therefore , be- gan to think of fixing him in some situation where he might be able to support himself ; and as his inclination led him strongly to Cam- bridge , it was determined that he should try his fortune there , not as ...
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