Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield, with Anecdotes of His Friends, and Criticisms on His WritingsAt the Classic Press, for W. Poyntell & Company, 1804 - 313 psl. |
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... Derbyshire , who , with modern acquirements , and amongst modish luxuries , suited to her large fortune , had cultivated her understanding by books and her virtues by benevolence . The again unpo- lished stoic had every charm in her ...
... Derbyshire , who , with modern acquirements , and amongst modish luxuries , suited to her large fortune , had cultivated her understanding by books and her virtues by benevolence . The again unpo- lished stoic had every charm in her ...
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... Derbyshire , had been injured by a dangerous quantity of the cicuta , injudiciously administered to them in the hooping cough , by a physician of the neighbour- hood . Mrs. Pole brought them to the house of Dr. Darwin , in Lichfield ...
... Derbyshire , had been injured by a dangerous quantity of the cicuta , injudiciously administered to them in the hooping cough , by a physician of the neighbour- hood . Mrs. Pole brought them to the house of Dr. Darwin , in Lichfield ...
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... Derbyshire must recollect , how rich and smiling the Matlock - scenery , compared to the savage magnificence of Eyam - Dale , commonly , though not properly , called Middleton - Dale . There , indeed , we see rocks piled on rocks ...
... Derbyshire must recollect , how rich and smiling the Matlock - scenery , compared to the savage magnificence of Eyam - Dale , commonly , though not properly , called Middleton - Dale . There , indeed , we see rocks piled on rocks ...
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... Derbyshire were said to have disputed the prize with him . But it was not without some stipulations , ap- parently hazardous to his pecuniary interest , that Mrs. Pole was persuaded to descend from her Laura - eminence to wifehood , and ...
... Derbyshire were said to have disputed the prize with him . But it was not without some stipulations , ap- parently hazardous to his pecuniary interest , that Mrs. Pole was persuaded to descend from her Laura - eminence to wifehood , and ...
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... Derbyshire stone has an amber tint , and hence the Buxton Crescent rises a golden palace in the desert . The Goddess next congratulates her Water Nymphs on having celebrated the odd nuptials of pure air and inflammable gas . We had ...
... Derbyshire stone has an amber tint , and hence the Buxton Crescent rises a golden palace in the desert . The Goddess next congratulates her Water Nymphs on having celebrated the odd nuptials of pure air and inflammable gas . We had ...
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Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin– Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield ... Anna Seward Visos knygos peržiūra - 1804 |
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin– Chiefly During His Residence at Lichfield ... Anna Seward Visos knygos peržiūra - 1804 |
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin– Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield ... Anna Seward Visos knygos peržiūra - 1804 |
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