Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 7Robert Chambers Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 - English literature |
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... interest and novelty to the travels of Bruce are those of MUNGO PARK in Central Africa . Mr. Park was born at Fowlshiels , near Selkirk , on the 10th of September 1771. He studied medicine , and performed a voyage to Bencoolen in the ...
... interest and novelty to the travels of Bruce are those of MUNGO PARK in Central Africa . Mr. Park was born at Fowlshiels , near Selkirk , on the 10th of September 1771. He studied medicine , and performed a voyage to Bencoolen in the ...
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... interest in the philanthropic labours of Miss Nightin- gale ; and thus his life , though uneventful , was , as his biographer remarks , full of work . ' Ill health , however , compelled him to go abroad , and he died at Florence ...
... interest in the philanthropic labours of Miss Nightin- gale ; and thus his life , though uneventful , was , as his biographer remarks , full of work . ' Ill health , however , compelled him to go abroad , and he died at Florence ...
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... interest of the narrative is well sus- tained . The pedagogue Squeers , and his seminary of Dotheboys Hall , is one of the most amusing and graphic of English satirical delineations ; and the picture it presents of imposture , ignorance ...
... interest of the narrative is well sus- tained . The pedagogue Squeers , and his seminary of Dotheboys Hall , is one of the most amusing and graphic of English satirical delineations ; and the picture it presents of imposture , ignorance ...
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