Gossip about Letters and Letter-writersEdmonston and Douglas, 1873 - 256 pages |
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Page 24
... happy means of ultimately procuring a parish for the eloquent minister in whose behalf it was penned . SIR HEW DALRYMPLE TO SIR LAURENCE Dundas . DALZELL , May 24 , 1775 . DEAR SIR , -Having spent a long life in pursuit of pleasure and ...
... happy means of ultimately procuring a parish for the eloquent minister in whose behalf it was penned . SIR HEW DALRYMPLE TO SIR LAURENCE Dundas . DALZELL , May 24 , 1775 . DEAR SIR , -Having spent a long life in pursuit of pleasure and ...
Page 25
... happy could I continue in that terrestrial paradise ; but we have a great Lord who has many little people soliciting him for many little things that he can do and that he cannot do ; and if my minister dies , his succession is too great ...
... happy could I continue in that terrestrial paradise ; but we have a great Lord who has many little people soliciting him for many little things that he can do and that he cannot do ; and if my minister dies , his succession is too great ...
Page 42
... happy , I am to partake in your elevation ; if unhappy , you have still a warm corner in my heart , and a retreat at Binfield in the worst of times at your service . I knew not whither to aim a letter after you ; that was a sort of ...
... happy , I am to partake in your elevation ; if unhappy , you have still a warm corner in my heart , and a retreat at Binfield in the worst of times at your service . I knew not whither to aim a letter after you ; that was a sort of ...
Page 52
... happy man that is the sacred thing , and therefore let the profane keep their distance . . . . I am returned from Scotland , charmed with my expedition ; it is of the Highlands I speak ; the Lowlands are worth seeing once , but the ...
... happy man that is the sacred thing , and therefore let the profane keep their distance . . . . I am returned from Scotland , charmed with my expedition ; it is of the Highlands I speak ; the Lowlands are worth seeing once , but the ...
Page 72
... happy , nor heard to complain . ' SHENSTONE . Procter has got a wen growing out at the nape of his neck , which his wife wants him to have cut off ; but I think it rather an agreeable excrescence- e - like his poetry -redundant . Hone ...
... happy , nor heard to complain . ' SHENSTONE . Procter has got a wen growing out at the nape of his neck , which his wife wants him to have cut off ; but I think it rather an agreeable excrescence- e - like his poetry -redundant . Hone ...
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