Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One Hundred and Fifty Writers from the Period of the Paston Letters to the Present DayWilliam Baptiste Scoones Harper & Bros., 1880 - Всего страниц: 573 |
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... passing into a phase of disappointment and sorrow . His most recent biographer , Mr. Edwards , to whom we are indebted for a fresh store of corre- spondence , remarks of this particular letter : - Perhaps few men of like mental calibre ...
... passing into a phase of disappointment and sorrow . His most recent biographer , Mr. Edwards , to whom we are indebted for a fresh store of corre- spondence , remarks of this particular letter : - Perhaps few men of like mental calibre ...
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... passed . me . I write not this to shew my friends what a brave letter I have written to Mr. Attorney ; I have none of those humours ; but that I have written is to a good end , that is , to the more decent carriage of my master's ...
... passed . me . I write not this to shew my friends what a brave letter I have written to Mr. Attorney ; I have none of those humours ; but that I have written is to a good end , that is , to the more decent carriage of my master's ...
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... passed in disguise through France under the undignified names of Jack and Tom Smith , and at the time this letter was written they were endeavouring to negotiate amoug the wily Spaniards a marriage - treaty with the Infanta . The only ...
... passed in disguise through France under the undignified names of Jack and Tom Smith , and at the time this letter was written they were endeavouring to negotiate amoug the wily Spaniards a marriage - treaty with the Infanta . The only ...
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... passed than to foresee what is to come , ( tho ' I fear there is no notable sharpsightedness requisite even to that ) I have prevailed with myself , how unequal soever to the task , to endeavour the com- piling a plain , faithful ...
... passed than to foresee what is to come , ( tho ' I fear there is no notable sharpsightedness requisite even to that ) I have prevailed with myself , how unequal soever to the task , to endeavour the com- piling a plain , faithful ...
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... passed nor do I find there was any order for it . There was another signal passage likewise before the dissolution : upon the reading the instructions to the Council of State during the interval of Parliament ( which is not to sit till ...
... passed nor do I find there was any order for it . There was another signal passage likewise before the dissolution : upon the reading the instructions to the Council of State during the interval of Parliament ( which is not to sit till ...
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