Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, to Mrs. Montagu, Between the Years 1755 and 1800: Chiefly Upon Literary and Moral Subjects, Tom 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1817 |
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... able to make use of . The account which my friend gave me of this lady was this that she herself had been extremely prejudiced against her character , by the accounts she had heard , and had forborne taking notice of her , till she had ...
... able to make use of . The account which my friend gave me of this lady was this that she herself had been extremely prejudiced against her character , by the accounts she had heard , and had forborne taking notice of her , till she had ...
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... able expectation that wisdom and virtue , by pa- tient perseverance , would at length gain the as- cendant over his passions ; but there could be no hope of reformation where all the natural feelings of humanity were lost , and the ...
... able expectation that wisdom and virtue , by pa- tient perseverance , would at length gain the as- cendant over his passions ; but there could be no hope of reformation where all the natural feelings of humanity were lost , and the ...
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... able to infer from them , I think must be , that the nation has as little to hope from opposition as from ministry . Pray did you read Mr. Wilkes's abuse of Samuel ? The Bible to be sure is an obsolete kind of statute ; but as one has ...
... able to infer from them , I think must be , that the nation has as little to hope from opposition as from ministry . Pray did you read Mr. Wilkes's abuse of Samuel ? The Bible to be sure is an obsolete kind of statute ; but as one has ...
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... able to give you an account when I could be likely to remove to town ; but another melan- choly event in the family has greatly added to my distress , and renders all my schemes uncertain . My poor sister Pennington has lost her eldest ...
... able to give you an account when I could be likely to remove to town ; but another melan- choly event in the family has greatly added to my distress , and renders all my schemes uncertain . My poor sister Pennington has lost her eldest ...
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... able contrivance , than the finest birth - day trim- ming that ingenious vanity ever devised . The one will tarnish and fade without hope of repa- ration ; the other will furnish materials for a sky - spun robe , " which may figure in a ...
... able contrivance , than the finest birth - day trim- ming that ingenious vanity ever devised . The one will tarnish and fade without hope of repa- ration ; the other will furnish materials for a sky - spun robe , " which may figure in a ...
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Strona 234 - Carter informed the editor, that in one of the last conversations which she had with this eminent moralist, she told him that she had never known him say anything contrary to the principles of the Christian religion. He seized her hand with great emotion, exclaiming, ' You know this, and bear witness to it when I am gone!