The Lady of the Manor, 3. köideHoulston and Stoneman, 1841 |
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... father . But , as he has since said of himself , his intellectual pleasures had no reference whatever to religion ; and though by no means an avowed infidel , or an open ene- my of his God , it never once occurred to him , that the word ...
... father . But , as he has since said of himself , his intellectual pleasures had no reference whatever to religion ; and though by no means an avowed infidel , or an open ene- my of his God , it never once occurred to him , that the word ...
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... father's , expressed in my pre- sence his regret that a child of such talents , as he was pleased to say I possessed , should be brought up under an ordinary governess . Give your daughter , ' said he , ' a classical education ...
... father's , expressed in my pre- sence his regret that a child of such talents , as he was pleased to say I possessed , should be brought up under an ordinary governess . Give your daughter , ' said he , ' a classical education ...
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... father never omitted any occasion of opening my mind to the beauties of the classics ; the more elegant passages of ... father's conversation , for his lessons were at that time always given through the medium of conversation , and gene ...
... father never omitted any occasion of opening my mind to the beauties of the classics ; the more elegant passages of ... father's conversation , for his lessons were at that time always given through the medium of conversation , and gene ...
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... father , having disengaged himself from all his affairs in the diplomatic line , settled himself in a habitation belong- ing to him in right of his wife , not very distant from Carlsruhe , the modern capital of Baden , and among the ...
... father , having disengaged himself from all his affairs in the diplomatic line , settled himself in a habitation belong- ing to him in right of his wife , not very distant from Carlsruhe , the modern capital of Baden , and among the ...
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... father had relinquished public life , he had begun to express his weariness of it , and since he had conceived the idea of devoting his time to my education , he seemed to have expressed more than his former disgust at the manner in ...
... father had relinquished public life , he had begun to express his weariness of it , and since he had conceived the idea of devoting his time to my education , he seemed to have expressed more than his former disgust at the manner in ...
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