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... continued through life familiar with both . There is another fact which Lord Macaulay has recorded from tradition , and which I also remember to have heard : - " The debate in Pandemonium was , as it well deserved to be , one of his ...
... continued through life familiar with both . There is another fact which Lord Macaulay has recorded from tradition , and which I also remember to have heard : - " The debate in Pandemonium was , as it well deserved to be , one of his ...
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... continued so for many years . " In December , 1774 , the family circle of Mr. Pitt was agreeably extended . His eldest sister , Lady Hester , became the wife of Charles Lord Mahon . There was already some relationship , since the first ...
... continued so for many years . " In December , 1774 , the family circle of Mr. Pitt was agreeably extended . His eldest sister , Lady Hester , became the wife of Charles Lord Mahon . There was already some relationship , since the first ...
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... continued to live for the most part as before at Pembroke Hall until near the period when he came of age . Thus his whole residence at the University 4 Life of Pitt , by Tomline , vol . i . p . 7 . was protracted , although with ...
... continued to live for the most part as before at Pembroke Hall until near the period when he came of age . Thus his whole residence at the University 4 Life of Pitt , by Tomline , vol . i . p . 7 . was protracted , although with ...
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... continued to puzzle at it till Mr. Pitt , coming in , took the volume and construed the passage with the greatest ease.5 Of the modern languages , French was the only one that Pitt acquired . Once and once only in his life , as we shall ...
... continued to puzzle at it till Mr. Pitt , coming in , took the volume and construed the passage with the greatest ease.5 Of the modern languages , French was the only one that Pitt acquired . Once and once only in his life , as we shall ...
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... continued with Mr. Pretyman the same practice of extemporaneous translation which with his father he had commenced . We further learn from his preceptor that " when alone he dwelt for hours upon striking passages of an orator or ...
... continued with Mr. Pretyman the same practice of extemporaneous translation which with his father he had commenced . We further learn from his preceptor that " when alone he dwelt for hours upon striking passages of an orator or ...
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