Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining letters [selected by V. Knox].

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From the same to Miss Susannah Thrale
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From the same to Miss Sophia Thrale
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From the same to Miss Susannah Thrale
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From the same to Mrs Thrale
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Mrs Thrale to Mr on his Marriage
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William Cowper Esq to Joseph Hill Esq
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From the same to the same
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From the same to the Rev W Unwin
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From the same to the Rev John Newton
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From the same to the Rev W Unwin
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From the same to the Rev J Newton
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Letter Page 32 William Cowper Esq to the Rev W Unwin
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From the same to the Rev J Newton
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From the same to the Rev W Unwin
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From the same to the Rev J Newton
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From the same to the Rev W Unwin
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From the same to the Rev J Newton
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From the same to Lady Hesketh
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From the same to the Rev W Unwin
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From the same to Lady Hesketh
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Dr Beattie to the Hon Charles Boyd
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From the same to Mrs Inglis
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From the same to Mrs Montague
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Letter Page 1 Mr Warburton to Mr Hurd
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Mr Hurd to Dr Warburton
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Dr Warburton to Mr Hurd
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From the same to N B Halhed
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From the same to C Reviczki
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From the same to J Wilmot Esq
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From the same to Lord Althorpe
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From the same to Mr Thomas Yeates
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From the same to Lord Ashburton
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From the same to Sir Joseph Banks
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From the same to Sir J Macpherson Bart
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David Hume Esq to
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John Dunning Esq to a Gentleman of the Inner Temple
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Dr Isaac Schomberg to a Lady on the Me thod of Reading for Female Improvement
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To Colonel Rs in Spain
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Mr Gibbon to Mrs Porten
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From the same to his Father
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From the same to J Holroyd Esq
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From the same to Mrs Gibbon
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From the same to the Right Hon Lady Sheffield
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Letter Page 31 Mr Gibbon to Mrs Porten
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From the same to the Right Hon Lord Sheffield
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From the same to Mrs Gibbon
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From the same to the Right Hon Lady
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From the same to the Right Hon Lord Sheffield
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Anna Seward to George Hardinge
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From the same to Captain Seward
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From the same to Miss Weston
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From the same to the Editor of the General Evening Post
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From the same to Thomas Christie Esq
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From the same to the Rev Richard Sykes
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From the same to Mrs Hayley
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From the same to Miss Sykes
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Mr Fox to Mr Wakefield
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Page 5 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an 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 encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and...
Page 6 - I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door...
Page 23 - I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very good: I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.
Page 6 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 6 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 5 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an 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 encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was over-powered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself...
Page 23 - I put myself into violent motion, and I think repeated it; but all was vain. I then went to bed, and, strange as it may seem, I think slept. When I saw light, it was time to contrive what I should do. Though God stopped my speech, he left me my hand : I enjoyed a mercy which was not granted to my dear friend Lawrence, who now perhaps overlooks me as I am writing, and rejoices that I have what he wanted. My first note was necessarily to my servant, who came in talking, and could not immediately comprehend...
Page 5 - When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Page 48 - So long as I am pleased with an employment, I am capable of unwearied application, because my feelings are all of the intense kind. I never received a little pleasure from any thing in my life; if I am delighted, it is in the extreme.
Page 101 - ... either side of you, you shall see on the right hand a box of my making. It is the box in which have been lodged all my hares, and in which lodges Puss at present ; but he, poor fellow, is worn out with age, and promises to die before you can see him. On the right hand stands a cupboard, the work of the same author ; it was once a dove-cage, but I transformed it. Opposite to you stands a table, which I also made ; but a merciless servant having scrubbed it...

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