The Early Life of Samuel RogersSmith, Elder, & Company, 1887 - 461 pages |
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... stories of Foote and Garrick . • + CHAPTER IX . Death of Rogers's Father -- Richard Sharp - Rogers deciding on a West - end life - R . Cumberland , R. Merry , T. Cooper - Priestley's exile - Horne Tooke's Trial - William Stone's Trial ...
... stories of Foote and Garrick . • + CHAPTER IX . Death of Rogers's Father -- Richard Sharp - Rogers deciding on a West - end life - R . Cumberland , R. Merry , T. Cooper - Priestley's exile - Horne Tooke's Trial - William Stone's Trial ...
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... stories which illustrate this unex- pected side of a great man's nature . He once challenged Mr. Hulton , a commissary in the German war , and commissioner of customs at Boston , a much taller and more robust person than himself , to ...
... stories which illustrate this unex- pected side of a great man's nature . He once challenged Mr. Hulton , a commissary in the German war , and commissioner of customs at Boston , a much taller and more robust person than himself , to ...
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... story of his journey were not published till 1775 , the year in which Johnson published his Journey to the Western Isles . ' Thomas Rogers went in August 1773 over much of the ground covered in Mr. Pennant's first tour , and his wife ...
... story of his journey were not published till 1775 , the year in which Johnson published his Journey to the Western Isles . ' Thomas Rogers went in August 1773 over much of the ground covered in Mr. Pennant's first tour , and his wife ...
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... story of his father one day calling the boys into his room , and asking them what professions they would choose in life . Samuel replied that he should like to be a preacher . He thought there was nothing on earth so grand . The wish ...
... story of his father one day calling the boys into his room , and asking them what professions they would choose in life . Samuel replied that he should like to be a preacher . He thought there was nothing on earth so grand . The wish ...
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... story of some gallant youth who had signalised himself in the same way . ' He probably told this story because it showed an unregulated and childish form of the desire for dis- tinction which was an important element of his char- acter ...
... story of some gallant youth who had signalised himself in the same way . ' He probably told this story because it showed an unregulated and childish form of the desire for dis- tinction which was an important element of his char- acter ...
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