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... Pembroke College , on the 31st of October , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year . The Reverend Dr. Adams , who afterwards presided over Pembroke College with universal esteem , told me he was present , and gave me some account of ...
... Pembroke College , on the 31st of October , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year . The Reverend Dr. Adams , who afterwards presided over Pembroke College with universal esteem , told me he was present , and gave me some account of ...
Page 40
... Pembroke College was that upon the second floor over the gateway . The enthusiast of learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom ...
... Pembroke College was that upon the second floor over the gateway . The enthusiast of learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom ...
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... Pembroke College , which he retained to the last . A short time before his death he sent to that College , a present of all his works , to be de- posited in their library ; and he had thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ...
... Pembroke College , which he retained to the last . A short time before his death he sent to that College , a present of all his works , to be de- posited in their library ; and he had thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ...
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