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... school in one of the back streets of Bristol , gained admission for her younger child , a boy of seven years and nine months old , into Colston's School , a charitable founda- tion similar in some respects to Christ's Hospital in London ...
... school in one of the back streets of Bristol , gained admission for her younger child , a boy of seven years and nine months old , into Colston's School , a charitable founda- tion similar in some respects to Christ's Hospital in London ...
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... Colston's School , by the usher or under - master of the school , a Mr. Thomas Phillips , who himself dabbled in literature , and contributed to periodicals . If so , however , the little pupil does not seem to have taken even the ...
... Colston's School , by the usher or under - master of the school , a Mr. Thomas Phillips , who himself dabbled in literature , and contributed to periodicals . If so , however , the little pupil does not seem to have taken even the ...
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... Colston's School , appears to have won a kind of reputation with a few persons of the pew- terer's stamp out of doors - honest people , with small pretensions to literature themselves , but willing to encourage a clever boy whose mother ...
... Colston's School , appears to have won a kind of reputation with a few persons of the pew- terer's stamp out of doors - honest people , with small pretensions to literature themselves , but willing to encourage a clever boy whose mother ...
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... Colston's School paid to Lambert , on the occasion , a premium of ten pounds ; and the arrangement was that Chatterton should be bound to him for seven years , during which period he was to board and lodge in Mr. Lambert's house , his ...
... Colston's School paid to Lambert , on the occasion , a premium of ten pounds ; and the arrangement was that Chatterton should be bound to him for seven years , during which period he was to board and lodge in Mr. Lambert's house , his ...
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... Colston's School ; and , by the texture of the paper and other evidences , this letter was traced to the ex - Bluecoat of Mr. Lambert's office , whose reasons for sending it had probably been personal . On this occasion his master was ...
... Colston's School ; and , by the texture of the paper and other evidences , this letter was traced to the ex - Bluecoat of Mr. Lambert's office , whose reasons for sending it had probably been personal . On this occasion his master was ...
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