Memoir of the Life of John Bowdler, EsqLongman & Company, 1825 - 348 pages |
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... observation , you may ob- serve his proficiencie in learning according to his yeares , and in piety above his yeares . He hath beene brought up a child of the Church of England ; and my request is , that he be so by your fatherly care ...
... observation , you may ob- serve his proficiencie in learning according to his yeares , and in piety above his yeares . He hath beene brought up a child of the Church of England ; and my request is , that he be so by your fatherly care ...
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... apologies as much as you can , therefore will make no other for my long silence , than that I have been so accablé with business that I have never been able to get my mind in tune . Observe , this is not J. BOWDLER , Esq . 29.
... apologies as much as you can , therefore will make no other for my long silence , than that I have been so accablé with business that I have never been able to get my mind in tune . Observe , this is not J. BOWDLER , Esq . 29.
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Thomas Bowdler. my mind in tune . Observe , this is not one of N.'s excuses for want of time , for that I have read and think is allowable to no man but a cobbler , who by his work is forced to maintain a wife and nine children . I am ...
Thomas Bowdler. my mind in tune . Observe , this is not one of N.'s excuses for want of time , for that I have read and think is allowable to no man but a cobbler , who by his work is forced to maintain a wife and nine children . I am ...
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... Observe , I omit here to give you a long quotation from Shakspeare on the attributes of jealousy . I am going to Hardres , to return on Monday morning , and wish I could meet you there : but we are not to be always happy , else should I ...
... Observe , I omit here to give you a long quotation from Shakspeare on the attributes of jealousy . I am going to Hardres , to return on Monday morning , and wish I could meet you there : but we are not to be always happy , else should I ...
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... observation to me which I have often thought of , and which I believe to be a very just one , and that is , that every body thinks others reserved ; but though this be true , yet all are not equally so . - Perhaps there are very few who ...
... observation to me which I have often thought of , and which I believe to be a very just one , and that is , that every body thinks others reserved ; but though this be true , yet all are not equally so . - Perhaps there are very few who ...
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