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... thought that we two were , without any introduction , to be friends for life ; but the next day I met him in the Turl , when of course he took no more notice of me than if I had been a post . " When I arrived the first night in Oxford I ...
... thought that we two were , without any introduction , to be friends for life ; but the next day I met him in the Turl , when of course he took no more notice of me than if I had been a post . " When I arrived the first night in Oxford I ...
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... thoughts of the majority . Again : while I was in Norfolk last year I was introduced to a clergyman about forty - five years of age , who , after being twenty years in the church , had , by much tedious canvassing , procured a living of ...
... thoughts of the majority . Again : while I was in Norfolk last year I was introduced to a clergyman about forty - five years of age , who , after being twenty years in the church , had , by much tedious canvassing , procured a living of ...
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... thought . 5thly . That the said work , though founded more particularly on life at Oxford , being true to human nature , cannot fail to be very valuable with reference to Cambridge also , to which end that many ob- servations and ...
... thought . 5thly . That the said work , though founded more particularly on life at Oxford , being true to human nature , cannot fail to be very valuable with reference to Cambridge also , to which end that many ob- servations and ...
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... thought I am prepossessed in favour of Oxford : - all my friends were there ; besides , I would not have Frederic continually passing through London , as he must do , to go from my county to Cambridge . But pray can there be any real ...
... thought I am prepossessed in favour of Oxford : - all my friends were there ; besides , I would not have Frederic continually passing through London , as he must do , to go from my county to Cambridge . But pray can there be any real ...
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... thought it worth their while to give them up . ' Of this tutorial profession , I have only to say it may be followed from necessity by many men who have studied in a generous spirit , wooing the Muses for their beauty , not their ...
... thought it worth their while to give them up . ' Of this tutorial profession , I have only to say it may be followed from necessity by many men who have studied in a generous spirit , wooing the Muses for their beauty , not their ...
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