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... experience of life that he brought to his office would have been remarkable in any epoch . His cousin Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote of him : I am sorry for H. Fielding's death , not only as I shall read no more of his writings , but I ...
... experience of life that he brought to his office would have been remarkable in any epoch . His cousin Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote of him : I am sorry for H. Fielding's death , not only as I shall read no more of his writings , but I ...
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... experience of life , experience as an important civil servant , as a man who delighted in the social pleasures of the hunting field , cards , and the table , as a magazine editor and highly professional man of letters , as an ...
... experience of life , experience as an important civil servant , as a man who delighted in the social pleasures of the hunting field , cards , and the table , as a magazine editor and highly professional man of letters , as an ...
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... experience of life , experience in the widest sense , imagin- ative and intellectual alike . The view of life expressed is a sombre one , and one that cannot be wholly accepted : much of value is lost if , as George Eliot seems to ...
... experience of life , experience in the widest sense , imagin- ative and intellectual alike . The view of life expressed is a sombre one , and one that cannot be wholly accepted : much of value is lost if , as George Eliot seems to ...
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