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... obtained for me but few of them ; those of Dr. Chelsum , Mr. Davies , Mr. Travis , and the anonymous author , are all that I have had the opportu- nity of reading . From these I have extracted some interesting observations , of which ...
... obtained for me but few of them ; those of Dr. Chelsum , Mr. Davies , Mr. Travis , and the anonymous author , are all that I have had the opportu- nity of reading . From these I have extracted some interesting observations , of which ...
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... obtain his father's consent to this alliance . " After a painful struggle , " he said , " I yielded to my fate . I sighed as a lover , I obeyed as a son . " This lively antithesis proves that at the time when he wrote his Memoirs he ...
... obtain his father's consent to this alliance . " After a painful struggle , " he said , " I yielded to my fate . I sighed as a lover , I obeyed as a son . " This lively antithesis proves that at the time when he wrote his Memoirs he ...
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... obtained it without difficulty , by a conversation , animated , spi- rited , and full of matter . His tone might be sometimes keen , but it was edged less by an offensive ambition of dictating to others , than by a confidence in himself ...
... obtained it without difficulty , by a conversation , animated , spi- rited , and full of matter . His tone might be sometimes keen , but it was edged less by an offensive ambition of dictating to others , than by a confidence in himself ...
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... obtain no other positive result , than that it had a talented author . It was , however , in the fashionable world , that Gibbon was ambitious to succeed . Society had always many charms for him . Hearts that have no strong attachment ...
... obtain no other positive result , than that it had a talented author . It was , however , in the fashionable world , that Gibbon was ambitious to succeed . Society had always many charms for him . Hearts that have no strong attachment ...
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... obtained a seat in parliament . To express his thoughts in the most appropriate form was always a difficulty , which unfitted him for public speaking ; and the consciousness of this defect , together with his awkwardness of manner ...
... obtained a seat in parliament . To express his thoughts in the most appropriate form was always a difficulty , which unfitted him for public speaking ; and the consciousness of this defect , together with his awkwardness of manner ...
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