The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 4G. Berger, 1868 - Anecdotes |
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... English shore was entrusted to Lord Anson . HOUSE OF MECKLENBURG . In the midst of an entertainment at which Dr. Nugent , the ingenious traveller , was present , at Weimar , one of the company , Dr. Barmeister , a learned antiquary ...
... English shore was entrusted to Lord Anson . HOUSE OF MECKLENBURG . In the midst of an entertainment at which Dr. Nugent , the ingenious traveller , was present , at Weimar , one of the company , Dr. Barmeister , a learned antiquary ...
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... English language ; but in the course of a few years , her majesty , under the tuition of the learned Mr. Majendie , was enabled not only to pronounce , but to write , English with a considerable degree of elegance and precision . As a ...
... English language ; but in the course of a few years , her majesty , under the tuition of the learned Mr. Majendie , was enabled not only to pronounce , but to write , English with a considerable degree of elegance and precision . As a ...
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... English thing perhaps about him . The number of king's plates which are run for throughout the king- dom , has been adduced as a striking proof of the extent of his majesty's patronage of this amusement ; but in this a considerable ...
... English thing perhaps about him . The number of king's plates which are run for throughout the king- dom , has been adduced as a striking proof of the extent of his majesty's patronage of this amusement ; but in this a considerable ...
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