Letters, Sentences, and MaximsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1888 - 327 σελίδες |
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... sense and knowledge of life and business , and certainly nothing can be more attractive than the style in which they are set before their readers . " - Quarterly Review , vol . lxxvi . , 1845 . " Lord Chesterfield's letters are , I will ...
... sense and knowledge of life and business , and certainly nothing can be more attractive than the style in which they are set before their readers . " - Quarterly Review , vol . lxxvi . , 1845 . " Lord Chesterfield's letters are , I will ...
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... sense a gentleman ; Mademoiselle , or , as she was called , Madame de Bouchet , was always treated with distin- guished politeness , and when he died he left her a legacy as some slight recompense for the injury he had done her . He ...
... sense a gentleman ; Mademoiselle , or , as she was called , Madame de Bouchet , was always treated with distin- guished politeness , and when he died he left her a legacy as some slight recompense for the injury he had done her . He ...
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... sense which rarely abandons men of wit on the other side of the Straits , he felt the imprudences of Voltaire , and disapproved of them . When he was old , and living in retirement , he wrote to a French lady on the subject thus ...
... sense which rarely abandons men of wit on the other side of the Straits , he felt the imprudences of Voltaire , and disapproved of them . When he was old , and living in retirement , he wrote to a French lady on the subject thus ...
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... , almost , to have totally failed , and to have only succeeded in making an original in the inverse sense , rather than with so much care and expense to have produced nothing more than an ordinary and insignificant man of 22 Critical Essay.
... , almost , to have totally failed , and to have only succeeded in making an original in the inverse sense , rather than with so much care and expense to have produced nothing more than an ordinary and insignificant man of 22 Critical Essay.
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... sense , the manners and politeness of his country , has attained the perfection of human nature . " He unites sufficiently well in himself the advan- tages of the two nations , with one character- istic which belongs exclusively to his ...
... sense , the manners and politeness of his country , has attained the perfection of human nature . " He unites sufficiently well in himself the advan- tages of the two nations , with one character- istic which belongs exclusively to his ...
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