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... kind which Edward performed ; but , as it is rather disgusting to fead it , I chufe to give it in the words of the author from whence it is apparently taken , with this remark , that the kings of France lay claim to the fame miraculous ...
... kind which Edward performed ; but , as it is rather disgusting to fead it , I chufe to give it in the words of the author from whence it is apparently taken , with this remark , that the kings of France lay claim to the fame miraculous ...
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... kind occurs in the account of a famous lawyer of the last century , lord chief justice Saunders , as exhibited in the life of the lord keeper Guilford , Page 213 . • ་ He was at first no better than a poor beggar boy , if not a parish ...
... kind occurs in the account of a famous lawyer of the last century , lord chief justice Saunders , as exhibited in the life of the lord keeper Guilford , Page 213 . • ་ He was at first no better than a poor beggar boy , if not a parish ...
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... them , if there was any thing peculiar of that kind in any author . ' A like propenfity to reading , and an equal celerity in the practice thereof , were obfervable in Johnson : it was was wonderful to fee , when he took up a 14 THE LIFE ...
... them , if there was any thing peculiar of that kind in any author . ' A like propenfity to reading , and an equal celerity in the practice thereof , were obfervable in Johnson : it was was wonderful to fee , when he took up a 14 THE LIFE ...
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... kind of applications . With one perfon , however , he com- menced an intimacy , the motives to which , at first view , may probably seem harder to be accounted for , than any one particular in his life . This perfon was Mr. Richard ...
... kind of applications . With one perfon , however , he com- menced an intimacy , the motives to which , at first view , may probably seem harder to be accounted for , than any one particular in his life . This perfon was Mr. Richard ...
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... kind , and a mutual condo- lence of their fortunes , they paffed many a melancholy hour , and thofe at a time when , it might be fuppofed , the reflection on them had made repose desirable : on the contrary , that very reflection is ...
... kind , and a mutual condo- lence of their fortunes , they paffed many a melancholy hour , and thofe at a time when , it might be fuppofed , the reflection on them had made repose desirable : on the contrary , that very reflection is ...
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