The Life of Thomas Burgess, D.D.: F.R.S., F.A.S., &c. &c. &c., Late Lord Bishop of SalisburyLongman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1840 - 557 pages |
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... feelings for her child's good . His own feelings , it is scarcely needful to add , were not a little excited on these occasions . Much pains were taken by this worthy couple to imbue the minds of their children with religious prin ...
... feelings for her child's good . His own feelings , it is scarcely needful to add , were not a little excited on these occasions . Much pains were taken by this worthy couple to imbue the minds of their children with religious prin ...
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... feelings of admiring reverence , while the thought would steal through his mind , " Shall I ever participate in similar honours ? " Such thoughts are natural to every youthful aspirant after fame . The time came , when , without losing ...
... feelings of admiring reverence , while the thought would steal through his mind , " Shall I ever participate in similar honours ? " Such thoughts are natural to every youthful aspirant after fame . The time came , when , without losing ...
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... feelings of veneration and love springing up in my heart towards you , whom I already knew by your most elegant edition of Dawes's Miscellanies . C upon the ingenious Dawes , quoted therein . It is BISHOP BURGESS . 17.
... feelings of veneration and love springing up in my heart towards you , whom I already knew by your most elegant edition of Dawes's Miscellanies . C upon the ingenious Dawes , quoted therein . It is BISHOP BURGESS . 17.
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... feeling beats at the remembrance of the generous virtues which were nursed in those schools of forti- tude , honour , courtesy , and wit , the mansions of our ancient nobility . " The history of monasteries , and other religious houses ...
... feeling beats at the remembrance of the generous virtues which were nursed in those schools of forti- tude , honour , courtesy , and wit , the mansions of our ancient nobility . " The history of monasteries , and other religious houses ...
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... feeling this , and acknowledging it in the fullest extent . - In The conclusion from all this must be , that , as Homer stood in need of no paltry expedients , he certainly made use of none , but used that language which was the ...
... feeling this , and acknowledging it in the fullest extent . - In The conclusion from all this must be , that , as Homer stood in need of no paltry expedients , he certainly made use of none , but used that language which was the ...
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