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Side ix
... entering on life to note how one who began his career with no advantages of training or cultivation , with no other help but his own personal qualities , —was able by these means to attain ultimately to the completene position in which.
... entering on life to note how one who began his career with no advantages of training or cultivation , with no other help but his own personal qualities , —was able by these means to attain ultimately to the completene position in which.
Side x
sir Edward Codrington Jane Barbara lady Bourchier. means to attain ultimately to the completene position in which he was seen and known as a r English gentleman , a highly distinguished office centre of a large circle of warm and true ...
sir Edward Codrington Jane Barbara lady Bourchier. means to attain ultimately to the completene position in which he was seen and known as a r English gentleman , a highly distinguished office centre of a large circle of warm and true ...
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... means of the house were limited to one basin of milk and the remainder of a loaf , which allowed us only a moderate slice of bread apiece . This scanty supply nevertheless gave us a meal of great enjoyment , and we ate it before a fire ...
... means of the house were limited to one basin of milk and the remainder of a loaf , which allowed us only a moderate slice of bread apiece . This scanty supply nevertheless gave us a meal of great enjoyment , and we ate it before a fire ...
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... mean to give me my turn ? ' He was then put to rights , and , notwithstanding all his wounds , recovered . 6 The Gibraltar ' ( Mackenzie ) did not go through , but drew up to windward ; and when the ' Montagne ' drew ahead , the ...
... mean to give me my turn ? ' He was then put to rights , and , notwithstanding all his wounds , recovered . 6 The Gibraltar ' ( Mackenzie ) did not go through , but drew up to windward ; and when the ' Montagne ' drew ahead , the ...
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... means admit that such charge can be made good . How- ever , the Admiralty have thought proper to promote -for his statement of Sir Robert's conversation with him , and have passed by all his officers unnoticed . And I trust , in investi ...
... means admit that such charge can be made good . How- ever , the Admiralty have thought proper to promote -for his statement of Sir Robert's conversation with him , and have passed by all his officers unnoticed . And I trust , in investi ...
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Side 148 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.