Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and Others: Held in Cephalonia, a Short Time Previous to His Lordship's Death |
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... pleased when he had made his short speech , and re- peatedly asked Colonel D. if he had done well , and if he had acquitted himself properly , as he was so little , he said , in the practice of public speaking . Hitherto I had seen his ...
... pleased when he had made his short speech , and re- peatedly asked Colonel D. if he had done well , and if he had acquitted himself properly , as he was so little , he said , in the practice of public speaking . Hitherto I had seen his ...
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... pleased to find that , though my friends could , in private , dispute , ob- ject to , and deride the religion of Christ , and especially those who believed in it and endeavoured to regulate their life by its principles , yet they ...
... pleased to find that , though my friends could , in private , dispute , ob- ject to , and deride the religion of Christ , and especially those who believed in it and endeavoured to regulate their life by its principles , yet they ...
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... pleased my hearers , and produced some favourable impression . I had , on a different oc- casion , found them productive of much utility to two persons of excellent understanding and of great can- dour ; but on the present occasion I ...
... pleased my hearers , and produced some favourable impression . I had , on a different oc- casion , found them productive of much utility to two persons of excellent understanding and of great can- dour ; but on the present occasion I ...
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... pleased with Bar- row's writings , and that he also went regularly to church . He said that he was not an infidel who denied the Scriptures , and wished to remain in unbelief , -on the contrary , he was very desirous to believe , as he ...
... pleased with Bar- row's writings , and that he also went regularly to church . He said that he was not an infidel who denied the Scriptures , and wished to remain in unbelief , -on the contrary , he was very desirous to believe , as he ...
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... pleased with the subject , at our next meeting I endeavoured to put them in fuller possession of the whole facts and opinions of ancient nations res- pecting their early history and worship , or mythology . The specimen I read , I said ...
... pleased with the subject , at our next meeting I endeavoured to put them in fuller possession of the whole facts and opinions of ancient nations res- pecting their early history and worship , or mythology . The specimen I read , I said ...
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