The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ...: Told by Herself in Letters to Her Friends, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1870 |
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... heard a story told to me by your coun- tryman Mr. Northmore , a great Devonshire reformer , one of the bad epic poets and very pleasant men in which that county abounds . He said that Jeremy Bentham being on a visit at a show house in ...
... heard a story told to me by your coun- tryman Mr. Northmore , a great Devonshire reformer , one of the bad epic poets and very pleasant men in which that county abounds . He said that Jeremy Bentham being on a visit at a show house in ...
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... heard say that a certain Mr. Gurney is in some sort the cause of this conversion , and that there are difficulties there also ; but of this I say nothing . Whilst in town , I put myself in the way of a conversion of another sort , by ...
... heard say that a certain Mr. Gurney is in some sort the cause of this conversion , and that there are difficulties there also ; but of this I say nothing . Whilst in town , I put myself in the way of a conversion of another sort , by ...
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... Heard ever any one of being shut into a chapel ! Mr. Milman says an action would lie for false imprisonment ; and , being in a barrister's house , I might have had law cheap . My poor old friend , however , was suffering ; and I was not ...
... Heard ever any one of being shut into a chapel ! Mr. Milman says an action would lie for false imprisonment ; and , being in a barrister's house , I might have had law cheap . My poor old friend , however , was suffering ; and I was not ...
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... heard him . I was in court one day , during which he led in every cause - all of them interesting ; two prosecutions for maltreating a negro boy , and one de- fense for libel . They were of the highest local importance- one of them a ...
... heard him . I was in court one day , during which he led in every cause - all of them interesting ; two prosecutions for maltreating a negro boy , and one de- fense for libel . They were of the highest local importance- one of them a ...
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... heard , when he threatened to send the clappers to gaol ; confessing , at the same time , that he did not wonder at the plaudits bestowed on the young and most eloquent pleader , only they had chosen a wrong place . You may imagine that ...
... heard , when he threatened to send the clappers to gaol ; confessing , at the same time , that he did not wonder at the plaudits bestowed on the young and most eloquent pleader , only they had chosen a wrong place . You may imagine that ...
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