Autobiography of the Late Sir Benjamin C. BrodieLongmans, Green, and Company, 1865 - 187 pages |
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... acquainted with Greek and Latin , and afterwards instructed her own children in those languages previously to their being sent to West- minster School . Being seven years my senior , she took some part in the instruction of myself also ...
... acquainted with Greek and Latin , and afterwards instructed her own children in those languages previously to their being sent to West- minster School . Being seven years my senior , she took some part in the instruction of myself also ...
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... acquaintance with the families in the neighbourhood . Indeed there were but few for us to visit . The nearest place at which we could have any acquaintance was Salisbury , and this was by the carriage road seven miles distant . Some of ...
... acquaintance with the families in the neighbourhood . Indeed there were but few for us to visit . The nearest place at which we could have any acquaintance was Salisbury , and this was by the carriage road seven miles distant . Some of ...
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... acquaintance left in the great city , time never hung heavily on my hands . In- deed very few portions of my life have been much happier than those in which I had no other society than that of my books and writings , and little ...
... acquaintance left in the great city , time never hung heavily on my hands . In- deed very few portions of my life have been much happier than those in which I had no other society than that of my books and writings , and little ...
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... acquaintance . He was the son of a gentleman of independent fortune at Salisbury , about five years my senior , and of a very thoughtful and reflecting turn of mind . There was a close intimacy between us , which terminated only with ...
... acquaintance . He was the son of a gentleman of independent fortune at Salisbury , about five years my senior , and of a very thoughtful and reflecting turn of mind . There was a close intimacy between us , which terminated only with ...
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... acquaintance : one of them a young physician of the name of Crawford , a nephew of Crawford who wrote on animal heat , and who died not very long afterwards ; and the other was Lawrence , who has since acquired so large and well ...
... acquaintance : one of them a young physician of the name of Crawford , a nephew of Crawford who wrote on animal heat , and who died not very long afterwards ; and the other was Lawrence , who has since acquired so large and well ...
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