Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... London ' ) , and ' to join therewith some other Matters of Use or Amusement that will be communicated to us . ' Besides this , his title- page professes to record the most remark - posed , though it was eventually continued by able ...
... London ' ) , and ' to join therewith some other Matters of Use or Amusement that will be communicated to us . ' Besides this , his title- page professes to record the most remark - posed , though it was eventually continued by able ...
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... London - the English Courant , the London Newsletter , the Post , the Postboy , the Postman — all those obscure and meagre sheets which are now remembered only through the mention of them in the pages of Addison and Steele . To the new ...
... London - the English Courant , the London Newsletter , the Post , the Postboy , the Postman — all those obscure and meagre sheets which are now remembered only through the mention of them in the pages of Addison and Steele . To the new ...
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... London ] , I was amazed to see him , at above 70 , look so fresh and well , that age seemed as it were to stand still with him his hair was still black , and all his motions were lively he had the same quickness of thought and strength ...
... London ] , I was amazed to see him , at above 70 , look so fresh and well , that age seemed as it were to stand still with him his hair was still black , and all his motions were lively he had the same quickness of thought and strength ...
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... London . In his fifteenth year , while a student at Oxford , he embraced the doctrines of the Society of Friends ; he was sent down from Christ Church , and sent abroad by his father to travel on the Continent . He returned at the end ...
... London . In his fifteenth year , while a student at Oxford , he embraced the doctrines of the Society of Friends ; he was sent down from Christ Church , and sent abroad by his father to travel on the Continent . He returned at the end ...
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... London prisons , in which he and many of his brother Quakers were confined , and the manner in which they were " treated both there and out of doors . It is melan- choly to note how very few of all the miseries of their lives would have ...
... London prisons , in which he and many of his brother Quakers were confined , and the manner in which they were " treated both there and out of doors . It is melan- choly to note how very few of all the miseries of their lives would have ...
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