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Charles Symmons. PREFACE . THOUGH a part of my former preface has now lost its reference , I am induced to retain the entire composition , as it was written under the impression of principles , not liable to decay , and of wounded ...
Charles Symmons. PREFACE . THOUGH a part of my former preface has now lost its reference , I am induced to retain the entire composition , as it was written under the impression of principles , not liable to decay , and of wounded ...
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... lost a term before he took his bachelor's degree , and content myself with specifying the year only for the date of this event , the same critic , not without some confusion in his language , observes , that " Dr. S. who quotes the ...
... lost a term before he took his bachelor's degree , and content myself with specifying the year only for the date of this event , the same critic , not without some confusion in his language , observes , that " Dr. S. who quotes the ...
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... lost the great endearment of exist- ence ; the exhilaration of his cheerful and the solace of his melancholy hour . Candour now requires me to speak of the literary assistance of which I have availed myself . If any vanity yet lingered ...
... lost the great endearment of exist- ence ; the exhilaration of his cheerful and the solace of his melancholy hour . Candour now requires me to speak of the literary assistance of which I have availed myself . If any vanity yet lingered ...
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... Lost " has engaged too much of the attention of the world not to invite its curiosity to the cir- cumstances of his conduct and the pecu- liarities of his mind . His biographers have been numerous ; and every source of infor- mation ...
... Lost " has engaged too much of the attention of the world not to invite its curiosity to the cir- cumstances of his conduct and the pecu- liarities of his mind . His biographers have been numerous ; and every source of infor- mation ...
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... lost in the wars between the rival houses of York and Lancaster . The fortune alone of a female , who had married into it , preserved it at this crisis from indi- gence . The first individual of the family , of whom any thing is ...
... lost in the wars between the rival houses of York and Lancaster . The fortune alone of a female , who had married into it , preserved it at this crisis from indi- gence . The first individual of the family , of whom any thing is ...
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