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Page xix
... gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him ; according to another , he insisted on her joining him in a bowl of punch . Both stories are probably true . The novel which was thus ushered into the world , was the Vicar ...
... gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him ; according to another , he insisted on her joining him in a bowl of punch . Both stories are probably true . The novel which was thus ushered into the world , was the Vicar ...
Page xxx
... gave dinners of several courses , paid court to venal beauties . He had also , it should be remembered , to the honour of his heart , though not of his head , a guinea , or five , or ten , according to the state of his purse , ready for ...
... gave dinners of several courses , paid court to venal beauties . He had also , it should be remembered , to the honour of his heart , though not of his head , a guinea , or five , or ten , according to the state of his purse , ready for ...
Page xxxi
... gave way . He was attacked by a nervous fever , which he thought himself compe- tent to treat . It would have been happy for him if his medical skill had been appreciated as justly by himself as by others . Notwithstanding the degree ...
... gave way . He was attacked by a nervous fever , which he thought himself compe- tent to treat . It would have been happy for him if his medical skill had been appreciated as justly by himself as by others . Notwithstanding the degree ...
Page xl
... of the table , and there were present the Burkes , Caleb White- foord , Major Mills , & c . & c . I remember Dr. Goldsmith gave me an order soon after this , with which I went to see this comedy ; and xl ANECDOTES OF GOLDSMITH .
... of the table , and there were present the Burkes , Caleb White- foord , Major Mills , & c . & c . I remember Dr. Goldsmith gave me an order soon after this , with which I went to see this comedy ; and xl ANECDOTES OF GOLDSMITH .
Page xlii
... gave proof of great integrity by detecting a fraud committed on the revenue in his department , and one by which he himself might have profited , if he had not been a man of principle . He has now been dead not more than fifteen years ...
... gave proof of great integrity by detecting a fraud committed on the revenue in his department , and one by which he himself might have profited , if he had not been a man of principle . He has now been dead not more than fifteen years ...
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