A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 4John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... guinea a week . He was afterwards raised to the office of clerk of the franks , in which he acted with great spirit and firmness ; and often stopped franks which were given by members of parliament to their friends ; because he thought ...
... guinea a week . He was afterwards raised to the office of clerk of the franks , in which he acted with great spirit and firmness ; and often stopped franks which were given by members of parliament to their friends ; because he thought ...
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... guineas to his son , for the trouble he would have in the task enjoined him . Mr. Clarke , in a letter dated Aug. 11 , 1729 , says , " Dr. Hargrave was so pleased with your pamphlet against the Separatists , that he carried it off by ...
... guineas to his son , for the trouble he would have in the task enjoined him . Mr. Clarke , in a letter dated Aug. 11 , 1729 , says , " Dr. Hargrave was so pleased with your pamphlet against the Separatists , that he carried it off by ...
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... guineas from the booksellers , for his Paradise Lost . 66 1779 , Suppl . MR . URBAN , IN your last volume it is asserted , that Dr. Bentley's Dedication of his edition of Horace was originally destined to Lord Halifax . Is not this a ...
... guineas from the booksellers , for his Paradise Lost . 66 1779 , Suppl . MR . URBAN , IN your last volume it is asserted , that Dr. Bentley's Dedication of his edition of Horace was originally destined to Lord Halifax . Is not this a ...
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... guineas , and that I should be con- tented with five guineas . " I would not mention this , if my circumstances did not oblige me to live in a narrow compass ; and I really think , if I had made an offer of the papers to Mr. Perry ...
... guineas , and that I should be con- tented with five guineas . " I would not mention this , if my circumstances did not oblige me to live in a narrow compass ; and I really think , if I had made an offer of the papers to Mr. Perry ...
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... guinea from Mrs. Turner , a Lincolnshire lady , who then boarded in Nottingham , by the hands of his land . lord , the only reply he made was , " If you had stabbed me to the heart I should have thanked you , but this I cannot bear ...
... guinea from Mrs. Turner , a Lincolnshire lady , who then boarded in Nottingham , by the hands of his land . lord , the only reply he made was , " If you had stabbed me to the heart I should have thanked you , but this I cannot bear ...
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