The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688; Continued to the Death of George the Second, Tập 1G. Cowie and Company, 1825 |
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... - tion , my sobriety , and my industry , gave my family a notion that the law was a proper profession for me ; but VOL . I. B I found an insurmountable aversion to every thing but the CONTENTS V THE FIRST VOLUME CHAP HENRY.
... - tion , my sobriety , and my industry , gave my family a notion that the law was a proper profession for me ; but VOL . I. B I found an insurmountable aversion to every thing but the CONTENTS V THE FIRST VOLUME CHAP HENRY.
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... gave me encouragement , as I was ever more disposed to see the favourable than unfavourable side of things ; a turn of mind which it is more happy to possess , than to be born to an estate of 10,000l . a year . In 1751 , I removed from ...
... gave me encouragement , as I was ever more disposed to see the favourable than unfavourable side of things ; a turn of mind which it is more happy to possess , than to be born to an estate of 10,000l . a year . In 1751 , I removed from ...
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... gave me the command of a large library . I then formed the plan of writing the History of England ; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of seventeen hundred years , I commenced with the ...
... gave me the command of a large library . I then formed the plan of writing the History of England ; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of seventeen hundred years , I commenced with the ...
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... gave me some consolation for the otherwise - indifferent reception of my performance . In 1756 , two years after the fall of the first volume , was published the second volume of my History , con- taining the period from the death of ...
... gave me some consolation for the otherwise - indifferent reception of my performance . In 1756 , two years after the fall of the first volume , was published the second volume of my History , con- taining the period from the death of ...
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... gave to But notwithstanding this variety of winds and sea- sons to which my writings had been exposed , they had still been making such advances , that the copy - money given me by the booksellers much exceeded any thing formerly known ...
... gave to But notwithstanding this variety of winds and sea- sons to which my writings had been exposed , they had still been making such advances , that the copy - money given me by the booksellers much exceeded any thing formerly known ...
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