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... published in 1763 , the year after her death . It is in one of these letters that she speaks of the Turkish custom of inoculation for small - pox , and , it is said , allowed the experiment to be tried on her own child . She is a lively ...
... published in 1763 , the year after her death . It is in one of these letters that she speaks of the Turkish custom of inoculation for small - pox , and , it is said , allowed the experiment to be tried on her own child . She is a lively ...
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... published , and three years later Miss Burney was appointed one of the lady Keepers of the Robes to Queen Charlotte ... published , and in 1814 The Wanderer , in 1832 Memoirs of Dr. Burney . She died in 1840 , in her eighty ...
... published , and three years later Miss Burney was appointed one of the lady Keepers of the Robes to Queen Charlotte ... published , and in 1814 The Wanderer , in 1832 Memoirs of Dr. Burney . She died in 1840 , in her eighty ...
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... published a volume of their collected poems under the title of Poems by Two Brothers , and spent the proceeds on a tour in Lincolnshire . Tennyson was entered at Trinity College , Cambridge ( Byron's college ) , in 1828 , and soon ...
... published a volume of their collected poems under the title of Poems by Two Brothers , and spent the proceeds on a tour in Lincolnshire . Tennyson was entered at Trinity College , Cambridge ( Byron's college ) , in 1828 , and soon ...
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