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... house , on the 26th of Novem- ber , 1800 , by the names of Thomas Babington , the Rev. Au- lay Macaulay and Mr. and Mrs. Babington acting as sponsors . The two years which followed were passed in a house in Birchin Lane , where the ...
... house , on the 26th of Novem- ber , 1800 , by the names of Thomas Babington , the Rev. Au- lay Macaulay and Mr. and Mrs. Babington acting as sponsors . The two years which followed were passed in a house in Birchin Lane , where the ...
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... house in the High Street of Clapham , in the part now called the Pavement , on the same side as the Plow Inn , but some doors nearer to the Common . It was a roomy , comfortable dwelling , with a very small garden behind , and in front ...
... house in the High Street of Clapham , in the part now called the Pavement , on the same side as the Plow Inn , but some doors nearer to the Common . It was a roomy , comfortable dwelling , with a very small garden behind , and in front ...
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... house of mourning , no refuge in the very grave . Against the members of that court - mar- tial the country has pronounced its verdict . But what is the line of defense taken by its advocates ? It has been solemnly and repeatedly ...
... house of mourning , no refuge in the very grave . Against the members of that court - mar- tial the country has pronounced its verdict . But what is the line of defense taken by its advocates ? It has been solemnly and repeatedly ...
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... house victorious ; but he , with the hall - door open in his hand , would shriek back a crowning effort , and go off triumphant . " Nothing of all this can be traced in his letters before the year 1830. Up to that period he corresponded ...
... house victorious ; but he , with the hall - door open in his hand , would shriek back a crowning effort , and go off triumphant . " Nothing of all this can be traced in his letters before the year 1830. Up to that period he corresponded ...
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... house ; and was so hospitably pressing that I at last agreed to go thither on Saturday afternoon . He is to drive me over again into York on Monday morning . I am very well pleased at having this opportunity of becoming better ...
... house ; and was so hospitably pressing that I at last agreed to go thither on Saturday afternoon . He is to drive me over again into York on Monday morning . I am very well pleased at having this opportunity of becoming better ...
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Página 57 - the tongue, if such there are, And make colloquial happiness your care, Preserve me from the thing I dread and hate, A duel in the form of a debate. Vociferated logic kills me quite. A noisy man is always in the right.
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Página 354 - of two great European communities which are rising, the one in the south of Africa, the other in Australasia; communities which are every year becoming more important, and more closely connected with our Indian empire. Whether we look at the intrinsic value of our literature, or at the particular situation of this