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Pagina 33
I would , therefore , rather choose to speak of the pleasure you afford all who are admitted to your conversation , of your elegant taste in all the polite ...
I would , therefore , rather choose to speak of the pleasure you afford all who are admitted to your conversation , of your elegant taste in all the polite ...
Pagina 35
But when I speak of you , I celebrate one who has had the happiness of possessing also those qualities which make a man useful to society , and of having had opportunities of exerting them in the most conspicuous manner .
But when I speak of you , I celebrate one who has had the happiness of possessing also those qualities which make a man useful to society , and of having had opportunities of exerting them in the most conspicuous manner .
Pagina 39
In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time received a kind glance , or a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord Such a - one . If you speak of a ...
In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time received a kind glance , or a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord Such a - one . If you speak of a ...
Pagina 41
There are , I must confess , many to whom my person is as well known as that of their nearest relations , who give themselves no further trouble about calling me by my name or quality , but speak of me very currently by the appellation ...
There are , I must confess , many to whom my person is as well known as that of their nearest relations , who give themselves no further trouble about calling me by my name or quality , but speak of me very currently by the appellation ...
Pagina 52
There now appear among us none b few ordinary people , who come to church on say their prayers , so that I have no work w speaking of but on Sundays . I have placed * SIR , 46 The opera at the Haymarket ,.
There now appear among us none b few ordinary people , who come to church on say their prayers , so that I have no work w speaking of but on Sundays . I have placed * SIR , 46 The opera at the Haymarket ,.
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