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... entered King's College , Cambridge . There he was seized with small - pox of the most malig- nant character , and for some time his life was in great danger . His physician , Dr. Brady , scarcely less remark- able for his violent ...
... entered King's College , Cambridge . There he was seized with small - pox of the most malig- nant character , and for some time his life was in great danger . His physician , Dr. Brady , scarcely less remark- able for his violent ...
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... entered upon parliamentary life with few of those advantages which a succession of cultivated and accomplished statesmen has taught us nowadays to con- sider almost indispensable to political renown . Macau- lay has summed up his ...
... entered upon parliamentary life with few of those advantages which a succession of cultivated and accomplished statesmen has taught us nowadays to con- sider almost indispensable to political renown . Macau- lay has summed up his ...
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... entering the House he had formed the prudent resolu- tion of not speaking until he had gained some expe- rience ; but , according to Coxe , his resolution was overborne by his emulation of St. John , who had been his competitor at Eton ...
... entering the House he had formed the prudent resolu- tion of not speaking until he had gained some expe- rience ; but , according to Coxe , his resolution was overborne by his emulation of St. John , who had been his competitor at Eton ...
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... entering join'd The monster's arm - pits , whose two shorter feet So lengthened , as the others dwindling shrunk . The feet behind then twisting up became That part that man conceals , which in the wretch Was cleft in twain . " VOL . I ...
... entering join'd The monster's arm - pits , whose two shorter feet So lengthened , as the others dwindling shrunk . The feet behind then twisting up became That part that man conceals , which in the wretch Was cleft in twain . " VOL . I ...
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... entered into business , but rather with a spirit of contradiction to what the prevailing set of men in former Parliaments had brought to pass , than of a disinterested zeal for the common good ; the third session has languished in the ...
... entered into business , but rather with a spirit of contradiction to what the prevailing set of men in former Parliaments had brought to pass , than of a disinterested zeal for the common good ; the third session has languished in the ...
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