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... father's free grammar school at Plympton Earl . Gainsborough was only four - the youngest of nine children frisking upon the banks of the Suffolk Stour . William Collins was pursuing his juvenile studies at Chichester , where his father ...
... father's free grammar school at Plympton Earl . Gainsborough was only four - the youngest of nine children frisking upon the banks of the Suffolk Stour . William Collins was pursuing his juvenile studies at Chichester , where his father ...
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... father should be . Had his own father passed the test - an exacting one for the eighteenth century , but rather less so for our day — he would certainly have stated , and lovingly embroidered , the fact . He lost no opportunity of ...
... father should be . Had his own father passed the test - an exacting one for the eighteenth century , but rather less so for our day — he would certainly have stated , and lovingly embroidered , the fact . He lost no opportunity of ...
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... father was for many years master of a ship in the Mediterranean trade . He retired from the sea in 1742 , and was later appointed Governor of York Fort in Hudson's Bay , where he died in 1750. He was a man of wide experience , good ...
... father was for many years master of a ship in the Mediterranean trade . He retired from the sea in 1742 , and was later appointed Governor of York Fort in Hudson's Bay , where he died in 1750. He was a man of wide experience , good ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
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