The Child of Thirty-six Fathers: A Serious, Comic and Moral Romance, Volume 1Isaac Riley, 1809 - French fiction |
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... Mother's house . IT was in a small town called Castel- naudary , situated in one of the Southern Provinces of France , that I first beheld the light , sometime antecedent to the com- mencement of the revolutionary storms which have ...
... Mother's house . IT was in a small town called Castel- naudary , situated in one of the Southern Provinces of France , that I first beheld the light , sometime antecedent to the com- mencement of the revolutionary storms which have ...
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... mother was not a person to neglect she therefore put me under the care of the most learned persons in the whole district . My progress was ra- pid , and I was no more than fifteen years of age , when I was held up as an exam- ple to all ...
... mother was not a person to neglect she therefore put me under the care of the most learned persons in the whole district . My progress was ra- pid , and I was no more than fifteen years of age , when I was held up as an exam- ple to all ...
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... mother , who was , as I have already remarked , very handsome , it will be allowed that , without any extravagant stretch of vanity , I might have considered myself as a person whom fate had destined for extraordinary and grand ...
... mother , who was , as I have already remarked , very handsome , it will be allowed that , without any extravagant stretch of vanity , I might have considered myself as a person whom fate had destined for extraordinary and grand ...
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... mother's name , when I interrogated her upon the subject , which was often the case , would make no other answer to the questions I put to her respecting the author of my being , but these few words : " Have patience , my " dear son ...
... mother's name , when I interrogated her upon the subject , which was often the case , would make no other answer to the questions I put to her respecting the author of my being , but these few words : " Have patience , my " dear son ...
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... mother , who had never conversed with me about her family , re- plied that the man was appointed her agent after the death of my grandfather , and that it was to his care she was indebt- ed for the fortune she possessed . She then told ...
... mother , who had never conversed with me about her family , re- plied that the man was appointed her agent after the death of my grandfather , and that it was to his care she was indebt- ed for the fortune she possessed . She then told ...
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