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... Nature of the Examinations . -The Character of the true Academical Student -- CHAP . XIII . - - 309 Confessions of a ruined Collegian , or the Debtor's Progress , in three Stages the Stage of Ignorance of Tempt- ation - of Desperation ...
... Nature of the Examinations . -The Character of the true Academical Student -- CHAP . XIII . - - 309 Confessions of a ruined Collegian , or the Debtor's Progress , in three Stages the Stage of Ignorance of Tempt- ation - of Desperation ...
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... nature , human nature ! what a very naughty boy you are , to Madam would soon have warned me off the - - : be sure . premises , only I took warning from " You have heard of Roger Hanson's scrape ? " " No. " " Well , he is obliged to ...
... nature , human nature ! what a very naughty boy you are , to Madam would soon have warned me off the - - : be sure . premises , only I took warning from " You have heard of Roger Hanson's scrape ? " " No. " " Well , he is obliged to ...
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... nature , cannot fail to be very valuable with reference to Cambridge also , to which end that many ob- servations and comparisons between Oxford and Cambridge be introduced . - 6thly . That , even at the risk of being tedious , we enter ...
... nature , cannot fail to be very valuable with reference to Cambridge also , to which end that many ob- servations and comparisons between Oxford and Cambridge be introduced . - 6thly . That , even at the risk of being tedious , we enter ...
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... nature as we find it ; what though I could find time to serve my parish , and have some sport , too , once in a way , it is not worth while to give that unstarched and un - hanged Methodist a chance against the Church ; he would preach ...
... nature as we find it ; what though I could find time to serve my parish , and have some sport , too , once in a way , it is not worth while to give that unstarched and un - hanged Methodist a chance against the Church ; he would preach ...
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... passed that square , and not feel the place admonitory indeed ? Old Orpheus ' vocal oaks were nothing to those placarded , those dismal - looking doors . Oh ! what a sinking , what a vacuum by nature most abhorred , ' have I many a time D ...
... passed that square , and not feel the place admonitory indeed ? Old Orpheus ' vocal oaks were nothing to those placarded , those dismal - looking doors . Oh ! what a sinking , what a vacuum by nature most abhorred , ' have I many a time D ...
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