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Biography of self-taught men [by B. B. Edwards and S. G. Bagley]. - Page 128
by Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - 288 pages
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 12

1823 - 946 pages
...pleasure. He had a certain quiet and grave humour, which ran through most of his conversation, and a vein of temperate jocularity, which gave infinite zest...information which formed its main staple and characteristic. There was a little air of affected testiness, and a tone of pretended rebuke and contradiction, with...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

1819 - 490 pages
...pleasure. He had a certain quiet and grave humour, which ran through most of his conversation ; and a vein of temperate jocularity, which gave infinite zest...information which formed its main staple and characteristic. There was a little air of affected tcstiness, and a tone of pretended rebuke and contradiction, with...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 780 pages
...pleasure. He had a certain quiet and grave humour, which ran through most of his conversation, aod a vein of temperate jocularity, which gave infinite zest...information which formed its main staple and characteristic. There was a little air of affected testiness, and a tone of pretended rebuke and contradiction, with...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...pleasantry. He had a certain quiet and grave humour, which ran through most of his conversation, and a vein of temperate jocularity, which gave infinite zest...information, which formed its main staple and characteristic. There was a little air of affected testiness, and a tone of pretended rebuke and contradiction, with...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 708 pages
...ran through most of his conversation, and a vein of temperate jocularity, which gave infinite zeit and effect to the condensed and inexhaustible information which formed its main staple and characteristic. Thera was a little air of affected testiness, and • tone of pretended rebuke and contradiction, with...
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The Quarterly Journal, Volume 8

1820 - 450 pages
...pleasure. He had a certain quiet and grave humour, which ran through most of his conversation, and a vein of temperate jocularity, which gave infinite zest...information which formed its main staple and characteristic. There was a little air of affected testiness, and a tone of pretended rebuke and contradiction, with...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 6

1820 - 496 pages
...pleasure. He bad a crruin quiet and grave humour, which ran through most of his conversation, and a vein of temperate jocularity, which gave infinite zest...information which formed its main staple and characteristic. There was a little air of affected testiness, and a lone of pretended rebuke and contradiction, with...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary, Volume 4

1820 - 494 pages
...pleasure. He had a certain quiet and grave humour, which ran through most of his conversation, and a vein of temperate jocularity, which gave infinite zest...information which formed its main staple and characteristic. There was a little air of affected testiness, and a tone of pretended rebuke and contradiction, with...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 4

1820 - 494 pages
...pleasure. He had a certain quiet and grave humour, which ran through most of his conversation, and a vein of temperate jocularity, which gave infinite zest...information which formed its main staple and characteristic. There was a little air of affected testiness, and a tone of pretended rebuke and contradiction, with...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 12

1823 - 944 pages
...pleasure. He had a certain quiet and grave humour, which ran through most of his conversation, and a vein of temperate jocularity, which gave infinite zest...information which formed its main staple and characteristic. There was a little air of affected testiness, and a tone of pretended rebuke and contradiction, with...
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