Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, to Mrs. Montagu, Between the Years 1755 and 1800: Chiefly Upon Literary and Moral Subjects, Tom 2

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F.C. and J. Rivington, 1817

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Strona 95 - I say it is the land of friendship." 62. Attempt to disable the Trident, Capt. Elliot. 1778. 95. " Oh lack ! what writing, as somebody used to say, what writation it all is. You and I my dear friend, have lived to see the mushroom growth of a new language in our own country, filled with phrases, which nobody could have understood when we were young.
Strona 215 - From an authority which seems too good, I am informed that Mrs. Thrale is by this time Signora Piozzi, and that her daughters have chosen another guardian. Is it true ? I am sorry if it is, but not surprized; and she always seemed to be a genius of that eccentric kind, which is mighty apt to be accompanied by " a plentiful lack" of common sense* Do not you think it monstrous, that on the proposal of every new.
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!

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