The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie1827 |
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... reader will be , " Who is Bartholomew Bouverie ? " In this age of auto - biography , Bartholomew shall answer for himself . To begin , then , " ab ovo : " I was hatched at the house of my parents , Jeremiah and Rebecca Bouverie , on the ...
... reader will be , " Who is Bartholomew Bouverie ? " In this age of auto - biography , Bartholomew shall answer for himself . To begin , then , " ab ovo : " I was hatched at the house of my parents , Jeremiah and Rebecca Bouverie , on the ...
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... reading . At length , in order to check this propensity to poetry , which my father considered at best a very useless accomplishment , he determined on sending me to school . Long and eloquently did my mother plead for at least a ...
... reading . At length , in order to check this propensity to poetry , which my father considered at best a very useless accomplishment , he determined on sending me to school . Long and eloquently did my mother plead for at least a ...
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... readers may think re- quired no proof ; but shall content myself with set- ting before them the pathetic complaint of a luck- less correspondent , which will , I doubt not , excite the same sensations of pity in their bosoms ( espe ...
... readers may think re- quired no proof ; but shall content myself with set- ting before them the pathetic complaint of a luck- less correspondent , which will , I doubt not , excite the same sensations of pity in their bosoms ( espe ...
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... my sleeve , while listening to the timid conjectures of some , the bold assertions of others , and the " authentic accounts " of a third , and still more audacious , class of D my fellow - citizens : all , gentle reader , THE ...
... my sleeve , while listening to the timid conjectures of some , the bold assertions of others , and the " authentic accounts " of a third , and still more audacious , class of D my fellow - citizens : all , gentle reader , THE ...
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Eton miscellany William Ewart Gladstone. my fellow - citizens : all , gentle reader , being equally de- stitute of ... readers that the contagion has extended no further . I love , like some other people , to give to my proceedings an ...
Eton miscellany William Ewart Gladstone. my fellow - citizens : all , gentle reader , being equally de- stitute of ... readers that the contagion has extended no further . I love , like some other people , to give to my proceedings an ...
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