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... who assured me that I should one day certainly become a man of letters , confirmed him in his design . My uncle Benjamin approved also of the scheme , and promised to give me all his volumes of ser- mons , written , as I have said ...
... who assured me that I should one day certainly become a man of letters , confirmed him in his design . My uncle Benjamin approved also of the scheme , and promised to give me all his volumes of ser- mons , written , as I have said ...
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... to lend him some of it ; promising to repay me as soon as he should get employment . At last he had drawn so much of this money , that I was extremely alarmed at what might become of me , should he fail to make good the deficiency .
... to lend him some of it ; promising to repay me as soon as he should get employment . At last he had drawn so much of this money , that I was extremely alarmed at what might become of me , should he fail to make good the deficiency .
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Hence he formed so high an opinion of my talents for refutation , that he seriously proposed to me to become his colleague in the es- tablishment of a new religious sect . He was to propagate the doctrine by preaching , and I to refute ...
Hence he formed so high an opinion of my talents for refutation , that he seriously proposed to me to become his colleague in the es- tablishment of a new religious sect . He was to propagate the doctrine by preaching , and I to refute ...
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They had then recourse to me , to become security for them ; their light , as they used to call it , being out . I attended at the pay - table every Saturday evening , to take up the little sum which I had made myself an- swerable for ...
They had then recourse to me , to become security for them ; their light , as they used to call it , being out . I attended at the pay - table every Saturday evening , to take up the little sum which I had made myself an- swerable for ...
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From hence he was sent to Oxford , where he remained about a year ; but he was not contented , and wished above all things to see London , and become an actor . At length , having received fifteen guineas to pay his quarter's board ...
From hence he was sent to Oxford , where he remained about a year ; but he was not contented , and wished above all things to see London , and become an actor . At length , having received fifteen guineas to pay his quarter's board ...
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