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... heard to say that she had one brother who wished her to remain all her days in a madhouse , but another who would not have it so . Charles succeeded in obtaining her discharge upon enter- ing into a solemn undertaking to take care of ...
... heard to say that she had one brother who wished her to remain all her days in a madhouse , but another who would not have it so . Charles succeeded in obtaining her discharge upon enter- ing into a solemn undertaking to take care of ...
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... heard after we were gone to bed , to make the six last beds in the dormitory , where the youngest children of us slept , answerable for an offence they neither dared to commit , nor had the power to hinder . The same execrable tyranny ...
... heard after we were gone to bed , to make the six last beds in the dormitory , where the youngest children of us slept , answerable for an offence they neither dared to commit , nor had the power to hinder . The same execrable tyranny ...
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... heard he did not do quite so well by himself , as he had done by the old folks . I was a hypochondriac lad ; and the sight of a boy in fetters , upon the day of my first putting on the blue clothes , was not exactly fitted to assuage ...
... heard he did not do quite so well by himself , as he had done by the old folks . I was a hypochondriac lad ; and the sight of a boy in fetters , upon the day of my first putting on the blue clothes , was not exactly fitted to assuage ...
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... heard sounds of the Ululantes , and caught glances of Tartarus . B. was a rabid pedant . His English style was crampt to bar- barism . His Easter anthems ( for his duty obliged him 1 Cowley . to those periodical flights ) were grating ...
... heard sounds of the Ululantes , and caught glances of Tartarus . B. was a rabid pedant . His English style was crampt to bar- barism . His Easter anthems ( for his duty obliged him 1 Cowley . to those periodical flights ) were grating ...
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... heard , to himself , of whipping the boy , and reading the Debates , at the same time ; a paragraph , and a lash between ; which in those times , when parliamentary oratory was most at a height and flourishing in these realms , was not ...
... heard , to himself , of whipping the boy , and reading the Debates , at the same time ; a paragraph , and a lash between ; which in those times , when parliamentary oratory was most at a height and flourishing in these realms , was not ...
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