The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie1827 |
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... whatever chance of success I might derive from the auspicious circumstances of my birth , was to be shared in common with at least five thousand 4 other children , who had precisely as sufficient grounds A 2 TO THE ...
... whatever chance of success I might derive from the auspicious circumstances of my birth , was to be shared in common with at least five thousand 4 other children , who had precisely as sufficient grounds A 2 TO THE ...
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... common to all public schools , when he was interrupted by an exclamation of " Oh , and the water too ! " coming from my mother , who was so carried away at the thoughts of this most terrible of terrors , that she could no longer arrange ...
... common to all public schools , when he was interrupted by an exclamation of " Oh , and the water too ! " coming from my mother , who was so carried away at the thoughts of this most terrible of terrors , that she could no longer arrange ...
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... common cause : he is at this moment racking his brain to find that consum- mation devoutly to be wished for " -an ending . That indispensable requisite to a book , a " Jam- que opus exegi , ” is the cause of all his anxiety : in short ...
... common cause : he is at this moment racking his brain to find that consum- mation devoutly to be wished for " -an ending . That indispensable requisite to a book , a " Jam- que opus exegi , ” is the cause of all his anxiety : in short ...
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... common query attending all professed loungers , and especially those whose superior rank in life gives them a title to a certain leisure and independ- ence , denied to their more active brethren , is , " How is Time to be killed ? " You ...
... common query attending all professed loungers , and especially those whose superior rank in life gives them a title to a certain leisure and independ- ence , denied to their more active brethren , is , " How is Time to be killed ? " You ...
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... common observation may convince us that this cannot be an un- reasonable computation , yet it is difficult to imagine what can induce so great a number to trust to the slip- pery path of fame , many of whose works must neces- sarily be ...
... common observation may convince us that this cannot be an un- reasonable computation , yet it is difficult to imagine what can induce so great a number to trust to the slip- pery path of fame , many of whose works must neces- sarily be ...
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