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... gives you no share in their lottery . ' But stay ; -Convocation can give compensation , ( In their sleeves though the Masters may laugh ) . ' You must bear the cits ' mockery , and sell no more crockery , ' Be a yeoman and take up your ...
... gives you no share in their lottery . ' But stay ; -Convocation can give compensation , ( In their sleeves though the Masters may laugh ) . ' You must bear the cits ' mockery , and sell no more crockery , ' Be a yeoman and take up your ...
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... give Dick his well - earn'd due , For he outrode old Time , as well as you . ' 2 The Universities are not enemies to exercises of the body , no more than of the mind ; and in particular they have a good esteem of riding the Great Horse ...
... give Dick his well - earn'd due , For he outrode old Time , as well as you . ' 2 The Universities are not enemies to exercises of the body , no more than of the mind ; and in particular they have a good esteem of riding the Great Horse ...
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... - born nor the apprentices of freemen . Since the passing of the Reform Bill , mere occupancy of a house for a certain time gives the suffrage and most of the other civic privileges . All this led very naturally to the enrolment of a D 2.
... - born nor the apprentices of freemen . Since the passing of the Reform Bill , mere occupancy of a house for a certain time gives the suffrage and most of the other civic privileges . All this led very naturally to the enrolment of a D 2.
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... gives this account of Examinations , & c . , in 1726 : As the Public Lectures are laid aside ; as very few Tutors take ... give them a handsome entertainment . ' Some further particulars are added which , from the pen of such a writer ...
... gives this account of Examinations , & c . , in 1726 : As the Public Lectures are laid aside ; as very few Tutors take ... give them a handsome entertainment . ' Some further particulars are added which , from the pen of such a writer ...
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... with the architects of our old buildings in Oxford ; exposure of the roof , and even studied efforts to give it pro- minence , seem to be intended to catch the eye in all our recent erections . ' perhaps , out of Athens or Rome , was.
... with the architects of our old buildings in Oxford ; exposure of the roof , and even studied efforts to give it pro- minence , seem to be intended to catch the eye in all our recent erections . ' perhaps , out of Athens or Rome , was.
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