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Pagina 7
He is supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle ,
a vintner near Charing Cross , who sent him for some time to Dr. Busby , at
Westminster ; but , not intending to give him any education beyond that of the
school ...
He is supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle ,
a vintner near Charing Cross , who sent him for some time to Dr. Busby , at
Westminster ; but , not intending to give him any education beyond that of the
school ...
Pagina 9
The conduct of Prior , in this splendid initiation into public business , was so
pleasing to King William , that he made him one of the gentlemen of bis
bedchamber ; and he is supposed to have passed some of the next years in the
quiet ...
The conduct of Prior , in this splendid initiation into public business , was so
pleasing to King William , that he made him one of the gentlemen of bis
bedchamber ; and he is supposed to have passed some of the next years in the
quiet ...
Pagina 12
It is easily supposed they were soon released . The negotiation was begun at
Prior's house , where the queen's ministers met Mesnager ( September 20 , 1711
) , and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior
appears ...
It is easily supposed they were soon released . The negotiation was begun at
Prior's house , where the queen's ministers met Mesnager ( September 20 , 1711
) , and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior
appears ...
Pagina 22
... students , who read merely that they may learn to write ; and of the “ Carmen
Seculare , " I cannot but suspect that I might praise or censure it by caprice
without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through
it ?
... students , who read merely that they may learn to write ; and of the “ Carmen
Seculare , " I cannot but suspect that I might praise or censure it by caprice
without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through
it ?
Pagina 30
... his father having some military employment that stationed him in Ireland ; but
after having passed through the usual preparatory studies , as may be
reasonably supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it
proper to assign ...
... his father having some military employment that stationed him in Ireland ; but
after having passed through the usual preparatory studies , as may be
reasonably supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it
proper to assign ...
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