Elegant Epistles: Or, A Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters,Vicesimus Knox Charles Dilly., 1790 - 798 Seiten |
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... because your genius would raife and adorn my actions with the fame advantage as Ti- mæus has difplayed those of Timoleon , or Herodotus thofe of Themistocles ; but because of the additional credit I shall re- ceive from the applause of ...
... because your genius would raife and adorn my actions with the fame advantage as Ti- mæus has difplayed those of Timoleon , or Herodotus thofe of Themistocles ; but because of the additional credit I shall re- ceive from the applause of ...
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... because , after you were parated from my brother , I neither w where to addrefs my letters , nor by what hand to convey them . I much kih to be informed how your affairs go and in what part of the world your witter - quarters are likely ...
... because , after you were parated from my brother , I neither w where to addrefs my letters , nor by what hand to convey them . I much kih to be informed how your affairs go and in what part of the world your witter - quarters are likely ...
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... because if any con- " sciousness remains after our diffolution , my thing occurred worth communi- cating to you , my letters would be more frequent and much longer . But I aced not tell you the fituation of my af- f ; and as to the ...
... because if any con- " sciousness remains after our diffolution , my thing occurred worth communi- cating to you , my letters would be more frequent and much longer . But I aced not tell you the fituation of my af- f ; and as to the ...
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... because he is prefent among us , fuffer his talents to languish and fade away unhonoured and unadmired ? It is furely a very per- verie and envious difpofition , to lock with indifference upon a man worthy of the higher approbation ...
... because he is prefent among us , fuffer his talents to languish and fade away unhonoured and unadmired ? It is furely a very per- verie and envious difpofition , to lock with indifference upon a man worthy of the higher approbation ...
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... because we have it in our power to fee him and to converfe with him , and not only to give him our ap plaufe , but to receive hiin into our friend . flip . Farewel . LETTER X. To Cornelius Tacitus . HAVE frequent debates with a learne ...
... because we have it in our power to fee him and to converfe with him , and not only to give him our ap plaufe , but to receive hiin into our friend . flip . Farewel . LETTER X. To Cornelius Tacitus . HAVE frequent debates with a learne ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Seite 240 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Seite 193 - I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if, as you say, confessing a truth, indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty, perform your command. But let not your grace...
Seite 194 - ... for whose sake I am now as I am, whose name I could some good while since...
Seite 337 - ... yet secretly my heart mourns, too sadly I fear, and cannot be comforted, because I have not the dear companion and sharer of all my joys and sorrows. I want him to talk with, to walk with, to eat and sleep with. All these things are irksome to me now: the day unwelcome, and the night so too. All company and meals I would avoid, if it might be...
Seite 468 - ... lying at your feet, a tract of Italy about three hundred miles in length, from the promontory of Antium to the Cape of Palinurus...
Seite 474 - Now, sir,' continued Mr. Lintot, 'in return for the frankness I have shown, pray tell me, is it the opinion of your friends at Court that my Lord Lansdowne will be brought to the bar or not?' I told him I heard he would not, and I hoped it, my Lord being one I had particular obligations to. — 'That may be,' replied Mr. Lintot; 'but by G if he is not, I shall lose the printing of a very good trial.
Seite 294 - You writ me lately for a footman, and I ' think this bearer will fit you : I know he can run ' well, for he hath run away twice from me, but he ' knew the way back again ; yet, though he hath a ' running head as well as running heels (and who will ' expect a footman to be a stayed man ?) I would ' not part with him were I not to go post to the
Seite 193 - ... enemies, withdraw your princely favour from me; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyal heart towards your good grace, ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutiful wife, and the infant princess your daughter.
Seite 472 - Mr. Lintot began in this manner: 'Now, damn them! What if they should put it into the newspaper how you and I went together to Oxford?
Seite 474 - Now, sir, (continued Mr. Lintot,) in return to the frankness I have shown, pray tell me, is it the opinion of your friends at Court that my Lord Lansdown will be brought to the bar or not?" I told him I heard he would not, and I hoped it, my Lord being one I had particular obligations to. — " That may be," replied Mr. Lintot, " but by G , if he is not, I shall lose the printing of a very good trial.