The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick Paperback -
by Adam Sedgwick Thomas Mckenny Hughes John Willis Clark
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...to give him a plumper. My motives are that he is our old Member, and a distinguished Member, and that I hate the other candidates--I mean with public and political hate, without private malice. Bankes is a fool, and was brought in last time by a set of old women, and whenever he rises makes the body he represents truly ridiculous. Copley is a clever fellow, but is not sincere, at least when 1 The Musical Festival which took place at York, September 13--16. SUPPORTS VISCOUNT PALMERSTON. 269 I pass him I am sure I smell a rat. Goulburn is the idol 1826. of the Saints, a prime favourite of Simeon's, and a subscriber M1to missionary societies. Moreover he squints. Now, my good fellow, though I believe you have the liberality of a great Inquisitor, yet I think you will hardly vote against your own college, your own friends, and the cause of common sense. Yours ever, A. Sedgwick. P.S. If you don't give at least one vote to Lord Palmerston, I shall think you have rusted in the country, and lost your wits1. Dent, February 18, 1826. Dear Ainger, When we last parted I had no thought of finding my way so soon to Dent, but here I am at the corner of a breakfast-table in the old Parsonage, and the Pastor and his wife are making such a noise that my powers of attention must, I fear, be suspended, and my language incoherent. I will, however, do the best I can in making my way through three pages of this sheet. After I returned to College my whole time was taken up with a dull geological paper which I was endeavouring to bring to a close, in order that it might appear in the Annals of Philosophy for next month. But my operations were interrupted by a letter from my sister, which informed me that my Father was much debilitated, and that he exhibited some symptoms of an inci...
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- Title The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick
- Author Adam Sedgwick Thomas Mckenny Hughes John Willis Clark
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Cambridge University Press CUP
- ISBN 9781108018319
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