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Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 - 1809-10 - Page 310
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Satires

Juvenal - 1802 - 574 pages
...spirits were now humbled. I did not however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite...master destined his youngest son for the situation to which I aspired. I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it was a treatise on Algebra,...
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Public Characters, Volume 5

Biography - 1803 - 598 pages
...degrees into the common drudge: this did not much disquiet me, for my spirits were now humbled. I did not however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding...master destined his youngest son for the situation to which I aspired. L. I possessed at this time but one book in the world: it was a treatise on algebra,...
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Volume 1

Juvenal - Latin poetry - 1803 - 354 pages
...spirits were now humbled. I did not, however, quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite...master destined his youngest son for the situation to which I aspired. I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it was a treatise on algebra,...
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volume 40

1803 - 572 pages
...spirits were now humbled. I did not however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite...was found out, they were rendered still less so. I ' • My indenture, which now lie* before me, i» dated the Ut of January, 177*.' could could not guess...
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 576 pages
...spirits were now humbled. I did not however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite...discovered that my master destined his youngest son for tlae situation to which I aspired. treasure locked up : for it supposed the reader to be well acquainted...
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The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford ...

Juvenal - 1806 - 578 pages
...spirits were now humbled. I did not however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite...discovered that my master destined his youngest son for tho situation to which I aspired. treasure locked up : for it supposed the reader to be well acquainted...
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 572 pages
...spirits were now humbled. I did not however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite...them was found out, they were rendered still less so, J could not guess the motives for this at first; but at length I discovered that my master destined...
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 582 pages
...hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite situdy, at every interval of leisure. These intervals were not very frequent; and when the use J made of them was found out, they were rendered still less so. J could not guess the motives for this...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 6

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1831 - 952 pages
...spirits were now humbled. I did not, however, quite resign the hope of one day succeeding Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite...master destined his youngest son for the situation to which 1 aspired. " I possessed at this time but one book in the world; it was a Treatise on Algebra,...
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, and of Aulus Persius Flaccus, Volume 1

Juvenal - Satire, English - 1817 - 496 pages
...spirits were now humbled. I did not however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite...master destined his youngest son for the situation to which I aspired. I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it was a treatise on Algebra,...
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