Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... seemed to punish by setting me at the head of the form : a pre- ferment dearly bought ! Much happier had I been to have sunk my performance in the general modesty of declining it . A most uncomfortable life I led among them for many a ...
... seemed to punish by setting me at the head of the form : a pre- ferment dearly bought ! Much happier had I been to have sunk my performance in the general modesty of declining it . A most uncomfortable life I led among them for many a ...
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... consi- dered . The misfortunes and advantages of it . I AM now come to that crisis of my life when for- tune seemed to be at a loss what she should do with # me . Had she favoured my father's first designation 38 THE LIFE OF.
... consi- dered . The misfortunes and advantages of it . I AM now come to that crisis of my life when for- tune seemed to be at a loss what she should do with # me . Had she favoured my father's first designation 38 THE LIFE OF.
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... seemed to speak - for its kinsman . It was no sooner set up , than the door of preferment was open to him . Here one would think my brother had the advan- tage of me , in the favour of fortune , by this his first laudable step into the ...
... seemed to speak - for its kinsman . It was no sooner set up , than the door of preferment was open to him . Here one would think my brother had the advan- tage of me , in the favour of fortune , by this his first laudable step into the ...
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... an un- certain preferment at Winchester , and to entreat him that he would send me per saltum , by a shorter cut , to the university . My father , who was naturally indulgent to me , seemed to comply with my request , 40 THE LIFE OF.
... an un- certain preferment at Winchester , and to entreat him that he would send me per saltum , by a shorter cut , to the university . My father , who was naturally indulgent to me , seemed to comply with my request , 40 THE LIFE OF.
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A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published. to me , seemed to comply with my request , and wrote word that as soon as his affairs would permit , he would carry me with him , and settle me in some college , but ...
A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published. to me , seemed to comply with my request , and wrote word that as soon as his affairs would permit , he would carry me with him , and settle me in some college , but ...
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