Letters, Sentences and MaximsChesterfield Society, 1991 - 348 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 44
... Italy , and France . He wrote from Paris to M. Jouneau on the 7th of December , 1714 , as follows : " I shall not tell you what I think of the French , because I am being often taken for a Frenchman , and more than one of them has paid ...
... Italy , and France . He wrote from Paris to M. Jouneau on the 7th of December , 1714 , as follows : " I shall not tell you what I think of the French , because I am being often taken for a Frenchman , and more than one of them has paid ...
Σελίδα 58
... Italy . Everything has been arranged by the most atten- tive of fathers for his success and well - being upon this novel scene . The young man is placed at the Academy with M. de la Guérinière ; the morning he devotes to study , and the ...
... Italy . Everything has been arranged by the most atten- tive of fathers for his success and well - being upon this novel scene . The young man is placed at the Academy with M. de la Guérinière ; the morning he devotes to study , and the ...
Σελίδα 206
... Italy . If you love music , hear it ; go to operas , concerts , and pay fiddlers to play to you ; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself . It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous , contemptible light ; brings him ...
... Italy . If you love music , hear it ; go to operas , concerts , and pay fiddlers to play to you ; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself . It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous , contemptible light ; brings him ...
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