William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, Volume 2H.S. King, 1876 |
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... wish I knew the particulars of her complaint . For Davy has discovered a perfectly new acid , by which he has restored the use of limbs to persons who had lost them for years ( one woman 9 years ) in cases of supposed rheumatism . At ...
... wish I knew the particulars of her complaint . For Davy has discovered a perfectly new acid , by which he has restored the use of limbs to persons who had lost them for years ( one woman 9 years ) in cases of supposed rheumatism . At ...
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... wish you success . . . . ” [ In a previous letter not here given he had begged Godwin to stand godfather to his child . The compliment was of course declined . ] " Your feelings respecting Baptism are , I suppose , much like mine ! At ...
... wish you success . . . . ” [ In a previous letter not here given he had begged Godwin to stand godfather to his child . The compliment was of course declined . ] " Your feelings respecting Baptism are , I suppose , much like mine ! At ...
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... wish you success on the stage , I yet cannot frame myself to the thought that you should cease to appear as a bold moral thinker . I wish you to write a book on the power of the words , and the processes by which the human feelings form ...
... wish you success on the stage , I yet cannot frame myself to the thought that you should cease to appear as a bold moral thinker . I wish you to write a book on the power of the words , and the processes by which the human feelings form ...
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... wish you to be solicitously nice , because you are to exhibit before a larger and more respectable multitude than a theatre presents to you , and in a new part - that of a poet employing his philosophical knowledge . “ If it be possible ...
... wish you to be solicitously nice , because you are to exhibit before a larger and more respectable multitude than a theatre presents to you , and in a new part - that of a poet employing his philosophical knowledge . “ If it be possible ...
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