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... interests , or indifferent to their marked partiality for good things ; for he employed the influence he derived from his mother's love , to coax from her the materials for a little feast , of which he was to be the proud dispenser ...
... interests , or indifferent to their marked partiality for good things ; for he employed the influence he derived from his mother's love , to coax from her the materials for a little feast , of which he was to be the proud dispenser ...
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... interest of Theobald , not alone on account of the practical inconvenience which the loss of the pure element occasioned , but also from the love which he felt for the stream that prattled with such musical voice over its shallow bed ...
... interest of Theobald , not alone on account of the practical inconvenience which the loss of the pure element occasioned , but also from the love which he felt for the stream that prattled with such musical voice over its shallow bed ...
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... rapidly through that Catholic city , and his virtues were the theme of every tongue . His personal appearance was of itself sufficient to excite interest , and his manners harmonised with his outward form . In the first.
... rapidly through that Catholic city , and his virtues were the theme of every tongue . His personal appearance was of itself sufficient to excite interest , and his manners harmonised with his outward form . In the first.
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... interest , and even veneration . Young as he was in years , and younger still in experience of the world , his advice , even in matters not altogether strictly within the province of a clergyman , was eagerly sought for by many whose ...
... interest , and even veneration . Young as he was in years , and younger still in experience of the world , his advice , even in matters not altogether strictly within the province of a clergyman , was eagerly sought for by many whose ...
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... interest . Educated in France , at a time when society was heaving with the first throes of the Great Revolution , he became chaplain to the family of a French nobleman , shortly before the storm burst forth which hurled throne into the ...
... interest . Educated in France , at a time when society was heaving with the first throes of the Great Revolution , he became chaplain to the family of a French nobleman , shortly before the storm burst forth which hurled throne into the ...
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