The portrait of a Christian gentleman, a memoir of P. F. TytlerJ. Murray, 1859 - 356 pages |
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... dear a price . The assurance that she was in feeble health , and could scarcely see to write , I knew how to encounter with a suitable suggestion : the declaration that she was growing very stupid , I had heard before - from herself ...
... dear a price . The assurance that she was in feeble health , and could scarcely see to write , I knew how to encounter with a suitable suggestion : the declaration that she was growing very stupid , I had heard before - from herself ...
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... dear father ! when did he ever find out a fault in any of his children ? We were all perfection with him ; yet we were a wild unruly set : we scrambled into a sort of uncertain education , I scarce know how . There were no female ...
... dear father ! when did he ever find out a fault in any of his children ? We were all perfection with him ; yet we were a wild unruly set : we scrambled into a sort of uncertain education , I scarce know how . There were no female ...
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... dear Clemmy ? ' We had observed this , and also the trembling frightened look with which the request was accompanied . We watched , and soon heard enough to convince us that the poor little girl was most cruelly tyrannized over : we ...
... dear Clemmy ? ' We had observed this , and also the trembling frightened look with which the request was accompanied . We watched , and soon heard enough to convince us that the poor little girl was most cruelly tyrannized over : we ...
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... dear father already rubs his hands , and thinks of my return ! " - exclaimed the son , on receiving a letter from home dated within a fortnight ( ! ) of the day of his departure from Woodhouselee . He even con- templated for Patrick a ...
... dear father already rubs his hands , and thinks of my return ! " - exclaimed the son , on receiving a letter from home dated within a fortnight ( ! ) of the day of his departure from Woodhouselee . He even con- templated for Patrick a ...
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... dear father . He is the very man I should have gone to . Indeed , I am only afraid that 6 Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Jerram , M.A. , formerly Vicar of Chobham , and for some time Minister of St. John's Chapel , Bedford Row , and late ...
... dear father . He is the very man I should have gone to . Indeed , I am only afraid that 6 Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Jerram , M.A. , formerly Vicar of Chobham , and for some time Minister of St. John's Chapel , Bedford Row , and late ...
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