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Page 110
... afterwards obliged to return . Two thousand pounds , which he had placed in the Excise - office , were also lost . There is yet no reason to believe that he was ever reduced to indigence . His wants , being few , were competently ...
... afterwards obliged to return . Two thousand pounds , which he had placed in the Excise - office , were also lost . There is yet no reason to believe that he was ever reduced to indigence . His wants , being few , were competently ...
Page 141
... afterwards , he found them destroyed , to stop windows , and owns that they hardly deserved a better fate . He was afterwards admitted into the family of the Countess of Kent , where he had the use of a library ; and so much recommended ...
... afterwards , he found them destroyed , to stop windows , and owns that they hardly deserved a better fate . He was afterwards admitted into the family of the Countess of Kent , where he had the use of a library ; and so much recommended ...
Page 408
... afterwards applied to the earl of Oxford for some publick employment . Oxford enjoined him to study Spanish ; and when , some time afterwards , he came again , and said that he had mastered it , dismissed him with this congratulation ...
... afterwards applied to the earl of Oxford for some publick employment . Oxford enjoined him to study Spanish ; and when , some time afterwards , he came again , and said that he had mastered it , dismissed him with this congratulation ...
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