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... Weston about the middle of Septer a state of health as will consist with a little m and constancy on my part in the work you ha to do . I thank you for setting my heart at r disquietude I felt when I wrote last , on the se lest I should ...
... Weston about the middle of Septer a state of health as will consist with a little m and constancy on my part in the work you ha to do . I thank you for setting my heart at r disquietude I felt when I wrote last , on the se lest I should ...
Page 241
... Weston , a few weeks before the attack reached its crisis , proved an inestimable blessing to the poor invalid . Her ... Weston , from some afflicted friends of the dear unhappy Cowper , has hurried me into Buckinghamshire . Weston about ...
... Weston , a few weeks before the attack reached its crisis , proved an inestimable blessing to the poor invalid . Her ... Weston , from some afflicted friends of the dear unhappy Cowper , has hurried me into Buckinghamshire . Weston about ...
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... Weston , as I am confident that Gibbon would have solicited Lord Spencer to enforce my application to Pitt in behalf of our beloved Cowper . It is a maxim with me , that the lesson we ought to learn from the severest of discipline , the ...
... Weston , as I am confident that Gibbon would have solicited Lord Spencer to enforce my application to Pitt in behalf of our beloved Cowper . It is a maxim with me , that the lesson we ought to learn from the severest of discipline , the ...
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