Gossip about Letters and Letter-writersEdmonston and Douglas, 1873 - 256 pages |
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... honour of delivering before the members of the Philosophical Institution , Edinburgh , in February 1867 . In the hope that his lucubrations may be considered not unworthy of publication , he has ventured to put them into their present ...
... honour of delivering before the members of the Philosophical Institution , Edinburgh , in February 1867 . In the hope that his lucubrations may be considered not unworthy of publication , he has ventured to put them into their present ...
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... honour , good your Grace , let not any light fancy , or bad counsel of mine 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 ...
... honour , good your Grace , let not any light fancy , or bad counsel of mine 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 ...
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... honour my roof , and dine with me . I asked him of his country , and what not ; I even asked him if his sermons were his own composition , which he affirmed they were ; I assured him I believed it , for never man had spoke or wrote so ...
... honour my roof , and dine with me . I asked him of his country , and what not ; I even asked him if his sermons were his own composition , which he affirmed they were ; I assured him I believed it , for never man had spoke or wrote so ...
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... honour which , being very little accustomed to favours from the great , I know not well how to receive , or in what terms to acknowledge . When , upon some slight encourage- ment , I first visited your Lordship , I was overpowered ...
... honour which , being very little accustomed to favours from the great , I know not well how to receive , or in what terms to acknowledge . When , upon some slight encourage- ment , I first visited your Lordship , I was overpowered ...
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... honoured with your Grace's of the 27th . The posts , which are as cross as pye - crust , have occasioned some delay . Depend on our attending at Bowhill on the 20th , and staying over the show . I have written to Adam Fergusson , who ...
... honoured with your Grace's of the 27th . The posts , which are as cross as pye - crust , have occasioned some delay . Depend on our attending at Bowhill on the 20th , and staying over the show . I have written to Adam Fergusson , who ...
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