Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations, Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons: Originally Compiled by the Rev. Vicesimus Knos ...Samuel Walker, 1826 |
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Page 286
... honour of your notice , I am con- London ; but the respect I owe you , tent without them . sir , and my impatience to thank you But , sir , if I can tell you nothing for so unexpected a mark of your good of myself , I can at least tell ...
... honour of your notice , I am con- London ; but the respect I owe you , tent without them . sir , and my impatience to thank you But , sir , if I can tell you nothing for so unexpected a mark of your good of myself , I can at least tell ...
Page 340
... honour to be , Rev. past , it recovers fresh verdure , shoots sir , up with double vigour , and delights the eye not of its owner only , but of every observing traveller . The best wishes that can be form- LETTER X. ed for your health ...
... honour to be , Rev. past , it recovers fresh verdure , shoots sir , up with double vigour , and delights the eye not of its owner only , but of every observing traveller . The best wishes that can be form- LETTER X. ed for your health ...
Page 344
... honour through so many a father and mother - they are two ; generations ( even supposing honour each of them had a father and mo- capable in its nature of descending ) , ther they are four . Those of the will only prove the small share ...
... honour through so many a father and mother - they are two ; generations ( even supposing honour each of them had a father and mo- capable in its nature of descending ) , ther they are four . Those of the will only prove the small share ...
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VOL IV | 1 |
From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
From the same to the same | 13 |
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Aberdeen acquaintance Adieu agreeable amusement Anna Seward beautiful believe Bishop of Gloucester bless Bradshaigh character charming Cicero comfort cousin dear friend dear sir delight desire Duchess of Portland Edward Gibbon Elizabeth Montagu England expect favour fear feel genius give glad grace happy haps hear heart Henry Kirke White honour hope Horace Walpole John Newton Johnson Jones kind lady ladyship Lausanne least less LETTER live London lord Lord Althorpe madam ment mind miss Montagu morning nature ness never night obliged occasion Olney perhaps person pleased pleasure poem poet poetry poor pray present racter reason received sensible sent Sir William Jones soon spirits suppose sure tell thank ther thing thought tion town truth verse Virgil William Unwin wish woman word write young