Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Tom 1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... pounds , but I think had some time allowed him for the payment . In the summer preceding the revolution , when his lordship was retired to Chatsworth , and had been there deeply engaged with other noblemen in the measures which soon ...
... pounds , but I think had some time allowed him for the payment . In the summer preceding the revolution , when his lordship was retired to Chatsworth , and had been there deeply engaged with other noblemen in the measures which soon ...
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... pounds a year , which my father had assured to me , and twenty shillings a week from my theatrical labours , to maintain as I then thought the happiest young couple that ever took a leap in the dark ! If after this , to complete my ...
... pounds a year , which my father had assured to me , and twenty shillings a week from my theatrical labours , to maintain as I then thought the happiest young couple that ever took a leap in the dark ! If after this , to complete my ...
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... pounds by it . I My having been a witness of this unnecessary rup- ture was of great use to me , when many years after I came to be a manager myself . I laid it down as a settled maxim , that no company could flourish while the chief ...
... pounds by it . I My having been a witness of this unnecessary rup- ture was of great use to me , when many years after I came to be a manager myself . I laid it down as a settled maxim , that no company could flourish while the chief ...
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... pounds , and others in proportion . As for myself , I was then too in- significant to be taken into their councils , and conse- quently stood among those of little importance , like zattle in a market , to be sold to the first bidder ...
... pounds , and others in proportion . As for myself , I was then too in- significant to be taken into their councils , and conse- quently stood among those of little importance , like zattle in a market , to be sold to the first bidder ...
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... pounds . Here you have a much stronger instance of an extrava- gant passion for the stage , than that which I have else- where shown in myself . I only quitted my hopes of being preferred to the like post , for it ; but Wilks quitted ...
... pounds . Here you have a much stronger instance of an extrava- gant passion for the stage , than that which I have else- where shown in myself . I only quitted my hopes of being preferred to the like post , for it ; but Wilks quitted ...
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