 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 pagina’s
...admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pagina’s
...admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 pagina’s
...admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 pagina’s
...admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pagina’s
...admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds-with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pagina’s
...admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
 | 742 pagina’s
...that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming lettters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or anybody, and laughs both at the clergy nud the philosopher. In a dispute, into which she rarely falls, she is very warm, and yet scarce ever... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 pagina’s
...admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him,...is very warm, and yet scarce ever in the wrong: her judgment on every subject is as just aa possible ; on every point of conduct as wrong as possible :... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pagina’s
...admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore jears. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him,...is very warm, and yet scarce ever in the wrong: her judgment on every subject is as just as possible; on every point of conduct as wrong as possible :... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 540 pagina’s
...admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him,...and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers." She died in 1780, at the age of eighty-four. Of the Duchess de Choiseul, he says, in the same letter,... | |
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Versailles; gives suppers twice a week; has everything new read to her; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts... 
