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... look at in its progress ; nor would you have received the intended series of these biographical letters . The entail of my mortal existence was in no small risk of being cut off by the executioner . My father had B 2 ROBERT SOUTHEY . 3.
... look at in its progress ; nor would you have received the intended series of these biographical letters . The entail of my mortal existence was in no small risk of being cut off by the executioner . My father had B 2 ROBERT SOUTHEY . 3.
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... look in that little treatise of mine upon the " Origin , Nature , and Object of the New System of Education , " you will find a passage at pp . 85 , 86 , written in remembrance of this cyphering - book , and of the effects which it ...
... look in that little treatise of mine upon the " Origin , Nature , and Object of the New System of Education , " you will find a passage at pp . 85 , 86 , written in remembrance of this cyphering - book , and of the effects which it ...
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... look , You'll find to constitute , my friends , this book . ' By Emanuel Collins , A. B. , late of Wadham College , Oxford . Bristol : printed by E. Farley , in Small Street . 1762 . George the Third's , there were persons in Bristol ...
... look , You'll find to constitute , my friends , this book . ' By Emanuel Collins , A. B. , late of Wadham College , Oxford . Bristol : printed by E. Farley , in Small Street . 1762 . George the Third's , there were persons in Bristol ...
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... look for kindness or protection , I gave good proof of a sense of physiognomy which never misled me yet , of honesty in speaking my opinion , and of a temerity in doing it by which my after life has often been characterised . Ma'am ...
... look for kindness or protection , I gave good proof of a sense of physiognomy which never misled me yet , of honesty in speaking my opinion , and of a temerity in doing it by which my after life has often been characterised . Ma'am ...
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... look , a sort of inward emanating light , as if all was not as it ought to be within . I should pro- nounce now that it was the eye of one predisposed to insanity ; and this I believe to have been the fact , though the disease ...
... look , a sort of inward emanating light , as if all was not as it ought to be within . I should pro- nounce now that it was the eye of one predisposed to insanity ; and this I believe to have been the fact , though the disease ...
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