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Pagina xi
... Amusements at Barton . - Aquatic misadven- ture , · 275 CHAPTER XXXIII . Dinner at General Oglethorpe's . - Anecdotes of the general . - Dispute about duelling . - Ghost stories , • 279 CHAPTER XXXIV . Mr. Joseph Cradock . - An author's ...
... Amusements at Barton . - Aquatic misadven- ture , · 275 CHAPTER XXXIII . Dinner at General Oglethorpe's . - Anecdotes of the general . - Dispute about duelling . - Ghost stories , • 279 CHAPTER XXXIV . Mr. Joseph Cradock . - An author's ...
Pagina 27
... amusements , especially ball - playing , and he was foremost in all mischievous pranks . Many years afterward , an old man , Jack Fitzimmons , one of the directors of the sports and keeper of the ball - court at Ballymahon , used to ...
... amusements , especially ball - playing , and he was foremost in all mischievous pranks . Many years afterward , an old man , Jack Fitzimmons , one of the directors of the sports and keeper of the ball - court at Ballymahon , used to ...
Pagina 43
... amusements , was his cousin and college crony , Robert Bryanton , with whom he so- journed occasionally at Ballymulvey House in the neighborhood . They used to make excursions about the country on foot , some- times fishing , sometimes ...
... amusements , was his cousin and college crony , Robert Bryanton , with whom he so- journed occasionally at Ballymulvey House in the neighborhood . They used to make excursions about the country on foot , some- times fishing , sometimes ...
Pagina 71
... amusement into a present means of subsistence . I passed among the harmless peasants of Flanders , and among such of the French as were poor enough to be very merry , for I ever found them sprightly in proportion to their wants . When ...
... amusement into a present means of subsistence . I passed among the harmless peasants of Flanders , and among such of the French as were poor enough to be very merry , for I ever found them sprightly in proportion to their wants . When ...
Pagina 84
... a favorite with the scholars from his easy , indulgent good nature . He mingled in their sports ; told them droll stories ; played on the flute for their EXPENSIVE CHARITIES . 85 amusement , and spent his money 84 OLIVER GOLDSMITH .
... a favorite with the scholars from his easy , indulgent good nature . He mingled in their sports ; told them droll stories ; played on the flute for their EXPENSIVE CHARITIES . 85 amusement , and spent his money 84 OLIVER GOLDSMITH .
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