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... father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner near Charing Cross , who sent him for some time to Dr. Busby , at Westminster ; but , not intending to give him any education beyond that of the school , took him , when he was ...
... father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner near Charing Cross , who sent him for some time to Dr. Busby , at Westminster ; but , not intending to give him any education beyond that of the school , took him , when he was ...
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... father having some military employment that stationed him in Ireland ; but after having passed through the usual preparatory studies , as may be reasonably supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it proper to ...
... father having some military employment that stationed him in Ireland ; but after having passed through the usual preparatory studies , as may be reasonably supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it proper to ...
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... ethereal host Again impatient crowd the crystal coast . The father now , within his spacious hands , Encompassed all the mingled mass of seas and lands ; And , having heaved aloft the ponderous sphere , He 40 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... ethereal host Again impatient crowd the crystal coast . The father now , within his spacious hands , Encompassed all the mingled mass of seas and lands ; And , having heaved aloft the ponderous sphere , He 40 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... father was of a family of which the Earl of Downe was the head , and that his mother was the daughter of William Turner , Esquire , of York , who had likewise three sons , one of whom had the honour of being killed , and the other of ...
... father was of a family of which the Earl of Downe was the head , and that his mother was the daughter of William Turner , Esquire , of York , who had likewise three sons , one of whom had the honour of being killed , and the other of ...
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... father , who was undoubtedly disappointed by the sudden blast of Popish prosperity , quitted his trade , and retired to Binfield , in Windsor Forest , with about twenty thousand pounds , for which , being conscientiously determined not ...
... father , who was undoubtedly disappointed by the sudden blast of Popish prosperity , quitted his trade , and retired to Binfield , in Windsor Forest , with about twenty thousand pounds , for which , being conscientiously determined not ...
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