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Page 174
... Tom Smith the only occurrence we are enabled to record is that his mother , one day , found him lying on his nurse's lap , gasping like a tench just landed from a pond . " What's the matter with the child ? " she eagerly in- quired ...
... Tom Smith the only occurrence we are enabled to record is that his mother , one day , found him lying on his nurse's lap , gasping like a tench just landed from a pond . " What's the matter with the child ? " she eagerly in- quired ...
Page 176
... Tom Smith remained at this school , where he acquired a taste for classical literature , which characterised him through life . Pope , Shakspeare , and Horace , from which he used to quote long passages , were his favourite authors ; he ...
... Tom Smith remained at this school , where he acquired a taste for classical literature , which characterised him through life . Pope , Shakspeare , and Horace , from which he used to quote long passages , were his favourite authors ; he ...
Page 177
... Tom Smith exclaimed , " Gen- tlemen ! as you refuse to hear my political principles , be so kind as to listen to these few words : I'll fight any man among ye , little or ... Smith to his gallant smutty antagonist THOMAS ASSHETON SMITH . 177.
... Tom Smith exclaimed , " Gen- tlemen ! as you refuse to hear my political principles , be so kind as to listen to these few words : I'll fight any man among ye , little or ... Smith to his gallant smutty antagonist THOMAS ASSHETON SMITH . 177.
Page 178
... Smith has sent me to give you this sovereign , and to tell you you're the best man that ever stood before him . " " God bless his honour ! " replied the man , " and thank him a thousand times . " When Tom Smith was at Eton , fighting ...
... Smith has sent me to give you this sovereign , and to tell you you're the best man that ever stood before him . " " God bless his honour ! " replied the man , " and thank him a thousand times . " When Tom Smith was at Eton , fighting ...
Page 179
... Tom Smith quitted Eton to become a gentle- man commoner at Christ Church , Oxford , where , with great diligence and assiduity , he hunted regularly in Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire , became a fearless swimmer , -learnt to pull a ...
... Tom Smith quitted Eton to become a gentle- man commoner at Christ Church , Oxford , where , with great diligence and assiduity , he hunted regularly in Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire , became a fearless swimmer , -learnt to pull a ...
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