Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3Hurd and Houghton, 1874 |
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... young Lely . " If you leave out the scars and wrinkles , I will not pay you a shilling . " Even in such a trifle , the great Protector showed both his good sense and his magnanimity . He did not wish all that was characteristic in his ...
... young Lely . " If you leave out the scars and wrinkles , I will not pay you a shilling . " Even in such a trifle , the great Protector showed both his good sense and his magnanimity . He did not wish all that was characteristic in his ...
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... young man , obtained a place in the customs . The second son , Pynaston , an idle , worthless boy , married before he was sixteen , lost his wife in two years , and died in the West Indies , leaving to the care of his unfortunate father ...
... young man , obtained a place in the customs . The second son , Pynaston , an idle , worthless boy , married before he was sixteen , lost his wife in two years , and died in the West Indies , leaving to the care of his unfortunate father ...
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... young rustics with whom he studied and played . But no cloud could overcast the dawn of so much genius and so much ambition . The very ploughmen observed , and long remembered , how kindly little Warren took to his book . The daily ...
... young rustics with whom he studied and played . But no cloud could overcast the dawn of so much genius and so much ambition . The very ploughmen observed , and long remembered , how kindly little Warren took to his book . The daily ...
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... young , intrepid , and excited probably by the example of the Commander of the Forces who , having like himself been a mercantile agent of the Company , had been turned by public calamities into a 8 WARREN HASTINGS .
... young , intrepid , and excited probably by the example of the Commander of the Forces who , having like himself been a mercantile agent of the Company , had been turned by public calamities into a 8 WARREN HASTINGS .
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... young prince's person had been confided to the minister . Nuncomar , stimulated at once by cupidity and malice , had been constantly attempting to hurt the reputation of his successful rival . This was not difficult . The revenues of ...
... young prince's person had been confided to the minister . Nuncomar , stimulated at once by cupidity and malice , had been constantly attempting to hurt the reputation of his successful rival . This was not difficult . The revenues of ...
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