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Page 44
... lived seventy - six years , to August 1727. This is the daughter of whom public mention has been made . She could repeat the first lines of Homer , the Metamor- phoses , and some of Euripides , by having of- ten read them . Yet here ...
... lived seventy - six years , to August 1727. This is the daughter of whom public mention has been made . She could repeat the first lines of Homer , the Metamor- phoses , and some of Euripides , by having of- ten read them . Yet here ...
Page 54
... lived so long in either university but as belong- ing to one house or another ; and it is still less likely that he could have so long inhabited a place of learning with so little distinction as to leave his residence uncertain . Dr ...
... lived so long in either university but as belong- ing to one house or another ; and it is still less likely that he could have so long inhabited a place of learning with so little distinction as to leave his residence uncertain . Dr ...
Page 55
... lived for some years in Rose- street , Covent - garden , and also that he died there ; the latter of these particulars is rendered highly probable , by his being interred in the cemetery of that parish . - H . They were collected into ...
... lived for some years in Rose- street , Covent - garden , and also that he died there ; the latter of these particulars is rendered highly probable , by his being interred in the cemetery of that parish . - H . They were collected into ...
Page 59
... lived worthless and useless , and blazed out his youth and his health in lavish voluptuousness ; till , at the age of one - and- thirty , he had exhausted the fund of life , and reduced himself to a state of weakness and decay . At this ...
... lived worthless and useless , and blazed out his youth and his health in lavish voluptuousness ; till , at the age of one - and- thirty , he had exhausted the fund of life , and reduced himself to a state of weakness and decay . At this ...
Page 66
... lived near enough to be well inform- ed , relates in Spence's " Memorials , " that he died of a fever caught by violent pursuit of a thief that had robbed one of his friends . But that indigence , and its concomitants , sorrow and ...
... lived near enough to be well inform- ed , relates in Spence's " Memorials , " that he died of a fever caught by violent pursuit of a thief that had robbed one of his friends . But that indigence , and its concomitants , sorrow and ...
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