The closing scene; or, Christianity and infidelity contrasted in the last hours of remarkable persons, by the author of 'The bishop's daughter'.1848 - Death - 376 pages |
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... complete ; Bolingbroke was dismissed by the king while yet in Germany , and fled to France . On learning that his opponents doomed him to the scaffold , James III . ( the Pretender , as he was called ) invited him to Lorraine , and made ...
... complete ; Bolingbroke was dismissed by the king while yet in Germany , and fled to France . On learning that his opponents doomed him to the scaffold , James III . ( the Pretender , as he was called ) invited him to Lorraine , and made ...
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... complete bankrupt . At Dublin , her religious views deepened , brightened , assumed a force , distinctness , and earnestness , which thenceforth she retained through life . From that period her intellect , industry , and influence were ...
... complete bankrupt . At Dublin , her religious views deepened , brightened , assumed a force , distinctness , and earnestness , which thenceforth she retained through life . From that period her intellect , industry , and influence were ...
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... complete illusion , with the motto in the centre of the painting — ' In - visibilia non deci- piunt . " - THOMAS H. BURDER , M.D. - - - all THERE is something , such is the remark in substance of a clever writer , peculiar in the ...
... complete illusion , with the motto in the centre of the painting — ' In - visibilia non deci- piunt . " - THOMAS H. BURDER , M.D. - - - all THERE is something , such is the remark in substance of a clever writer , peculiar in the ...
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... completing it he often rose at three in the morning ! On one occasion he rose at three ; wrote , without cessation , till five the following morning ; then went to bed ; and at nine o'clock Mrs. Hope , for he had been married a few ...
... completing it he often rose at three in the morning ! On one occasion he rose at three ; wrote , without cessation , till five the following morning ; then went to bed ; and at nine o'clock Mrs. Hope , for he had been married a few ...
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... complete Theodore's edu- cation , and to train him for the bar . With this view the clergyman took the petted and precocious boy down to Oxford , to be entered as an Undergraduate . Even then his turn for unseasonable pleasantry bade ...
... complete Theodore's edu- cation , and to train him for the bar . With this view the clergyman took the petted and precocious boy down to Oxford , to be entered as an Undergraduate . Even then his turn for unseasonable pleasantry bade ...
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