Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789George Bell and Sons, 1889 - 366 pages |
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Page xxix
... conversation , for which she had a talent , and a great reader on a variety of subjects . She brought her husband a dowry of £ 80,000 , and no inconsiderable portion of this handsome jointure seems to have been swallowed up in the ...
... conversation , for which she had a talent , and a great reader on a variety of subjects . She brought her husband a dowry of £ 80,000 , and no inconsiderable portion of this handsome jointure seems to have been swallowed up in the ...
Page xxxii
... conversation and agreeable manners . " In these interesting reminiscences he speaks of the great foppery prevailing in dress - a weakness from which he was not himself exempt , as the vivacious Fanny Burney will tell us by - and - by ...
... conversation and agreeable manners . " In these interesting reminiscences he speaks of the great foppery prevailing in dress - a weakness from which he was not himself exempt , as the vivacious Fanny Burney will tell us by - and - by ...
Page xxxiv
... conversation , charming as it was . " In the meantime he was making one disastrous attempt at practical farming after another , like a desperate gamester doubling the stakes with every loss . For a year or two after his marriage he ...
... conversation , charming as it was . " In the meantime he was making one disastrous attempt at practical farming after another , like a desperate gamester doubling the stakes with every loss . For a year or two after his marriage he ...
Page xxxv
... conversation and appearance must ever secure him welcome and admiration . But , of late , some of his facts have been disputed , and though I believe it to be only by envious and malignant people , yet reports of that kind are fatal to ...
... conversation and appearance must ever secure him welcome and admiration . But , of late , some of his facts have been disputed , and though I believe it to be only by envious and malignant people , yet reports of that kind are fatal to ...
Page xxxvi
... conversation with Mr. Young . We happened to be alone in the parlour , and either from confidence in my prudence , or from an entire and unaccountable carelessness of consequences , he told me that he was the most miserable fellow ...
... conversation with Mr. Young . We happened to be alone in the parlour , and either from confidence in my prudence , or from an entire and unaccountable carelessness of consequences , he told me that he was the most miserable fellow ...
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