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It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not
refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he
prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things
, and ...
It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not
refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he
prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things
, and ...
Pagina 87
At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermin , he was engaged in transacting things of
real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much
employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters to Mr
Bennet ...
At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermin , he was engaged in transacting things of
real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much
employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters to Mr
Bennet ...
Pagina 362
New things are made familiar , and familiar things are made new . ... yet the
whole detail of a female - day is here brought before us invested with so much art
of decoration , that , though nothing is disguised , every thing is striking , and we
feel ...
New things are made familiar , and familiar things are made new . ... yet the
whole detail of a female - day is here brought before us invested with so much art
of decoration , that , though nothing is disguised , every thing is striking , and we
feel ...
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