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... pounds per annum . Budgell had now attained a most respectable station in life : his fortune was liberal , if not splendid ; his abilities , both in the literary and political world , were acknowledged and esteemed , and , in a moral ...
... pounds per annum . Budgell had now attained a most respectable station in life : his fortune was liberal , if not splendid ; his abilities , both in the literary and political world , were acknowledged and esteemed , and , in a moral ...
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... pounds ! the stroke , though severe , did not deprive him of his wonted energy , and he entered into the business and debates of the general courts of the company with so much spirit 10 BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES . Zachary Pearce.
... pounds ! the stroke , though severe , did not deprive him of his wonted energy , and he entered into the business and debates of the general courts of the company with so much spirit 10 BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES . Zachary Pearce.
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... ; and in these fruitless attempts he sunk the remainder of his property , to the amount , it is said , of five thousand pounds . With the privations of poverty our author was ill calculated BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES . 11.
... ; and in these fruitless attempts he sunk the remainder of his property , to the amount , it is said , of five thousand pounds . With the privations of poverty our author was ill calculated BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES . 11.
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... pounds . Thẻ attempt failed , however , and Budgell had again recourse to his pen for the means of subsistence . Had this been employed in the cause of his coun- try , of virtue , or religiou , no nobler occupation could have been ...
... pounds . Thẻ attempt failed , however , and Budgell had again recourse to his pen for the means of subsistence . Had this been employed in the cause of his coun- try , of virtue , or religiou , no nobler occupation could have been ...
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... pounds , nearly the whole of his pro- perty , to Mr. Budgell . As Tindal had a favou- rite nephew , who was in narrow circumstances , and to whom he had always expressed an inten- tion of leaving the bulk of his fortune , this dis ...
... pounds , nearly the whole of his pro- perty , to Mr. Budgell . As Tindal had a favou- rite nephew , who was in narrow circumstances , and to whom he had always expressed an inten- tion of leaving the bulk of his fortune , this dis ...
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