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Page xviii
... perhaps , was also well . His stutter saved him from the Universities , and he was thus enabled through life to preserve a romantic attachment for these seminaries of sound learning and true religion . Literature has no reason to ...
... perhaps , was also well . His stutter saved him from the Universities , and he was thus enabled through life to preserve a romantic attachment for these seminaries of sound learning and true religion . Literature has no reason to ...
Page 9
... perhaps , differed from the balance of last year in the sum of 257 . Is . 6d . ) occupied his days and nights for a month previ- Not that Tipp was blind to the deadness of things ( as they call them in the city ) in his beloved house ...
... perhaps , differed from the balance of last year in the sum of 257 . Is . 6d . ) occupied his days and nights for a month previ- Not that Tipp was blind to the deadness of things ( as they call them in the city ) in his beloved house ...
Page 36
... perhaps set any great con- sideration upon the value of juvenile time . He came among us , now and then , but often staid away whole days from us ; and when he came , it made no difference to us -he had his private room to retire to ...
... perhaps set any great con- sideration upon the value of juvenile time . He came among us , now and then , but often staid away whole days from us ; and when he came , it made no difference to us -he had his private room to retire to ...
Page 37
... perhaps felt , a delicacy in interfering in a province not strictly his own . I have not been without my suspicions , that he was not altogether displeased at the contrast we presented to his end of the school . We were a sort of Helots ...
... perhaps felt , a delicacy in interfering in a province not strictly his own . I have not been without my suspicions , that he was not altogether displeased at the contrast we presented to his end of the school . We were a sort of Helots ...
Page 41
... Perhaps we cannot dis- miss him better than with the pious ejaculation of C.- when he heard that his old master was on his death - bed- " Poor J. B. ! -may all his faults be forgiven ; and may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub boys ...
... Perhaps we cannot dis- miss him better than with the pious ejaculation of C.- when he heard that his old master was on his death - bed- " Poor J. B. ! -may all his faults be forgiven ; and may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub boys ...
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