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... thing asked was not a mere Honorary D.C.L. degree ( as in Sheridan's case in 1810 ) , but a Degree by Diploma , a Degree which confers immediate and full academical privi- leges and is a compliment usually confined to persons of high ...
... thing asked was not a mere Honorary D.C.L. degree ( as in Sheridan's case in 1810 ) , but a Degree by Diploma , a Degree which confers immediate and full academical privi- leges and is a compliment usually confined to persons of high ...
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... thing !. Half in joke and half , I believe , in ignorance , I was asked ( since the publication of my book ) if I remembered the trial of Miss Blandy for poisoning her father . Now , as this trial took place thirty - four years before I ...
... thing !. Half in joke and half , I believe , in ignorance , I was asked ( since the publication of my book ) if I remembered the trial of Miss Blandy for poisoning her father . Now , as this trial took place thirty - four years before I ...
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... thing took place at this time in many other towns ; -the horrible proceedings in France having generally produced a return to better notions , both on religious and political questions , in our own country . 3 And not , as it ought to ...
... thing took place at this time in many other towns ; -the horrible proceedings in France having generally produced a return to better notions , both on religious and political questions , in our own country . 3 And not , as it ought to ...
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... things was now severely felt by all who from want of funds or from want of thought had not laid in a winter's stock ; and if many of the middle classes thus suffered , what must have been the misery of the very poor ! At length on the ...
... things was now severely felt by all who from want of funds or from want of thought had not laid in a winter's stock ; and if many of the middle classes thus suffered , what must have been the misery of the very poor ! At length on the ...
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... thing now never heard of ) , consisted in a man's coming up now and then , just to keep a term ; so that it required several years at this rate , as well as caused much trouble and anxiety , to get a B.A. degree . The Cambridge ' ten ...
... thing now never heard of ) , consisted in a man's coming up now and then , just to keep a term ; so that it required several years at this rate , as well as caused much trouble and anxiety , to get a B.A. degree . The Cambridge ' ten ...
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