The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 1G. Bell, 1887 - 953 pages |
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Page xiii
... King entered LETTERS TO MRS . HEWET . No date . - Count Turrucca's ball - Learning Italian - Marriage of an old maid Sept. 1709. - Madame Dunoyer's letters - Mr . Selwyn's success Oct. 1709. - The New Atalantis - Reported marriage of ...
... King entered LETTERS TO MRS . HEWET . No date . - Count Turrucca's ball - Learning Italian - Marriage of an old maid Sept. 1709. - Madame Dunoyer's letters - Mr . Selwyn's success Oct. 1709. - The New Atalantis - Reported marriage of ...
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... King of Poland - Leipzig fair - Fortifications and their de- scription • To the same , Nov. 23. - Arrival at ... kings - Solyman the Magnificent - Crossing the Danube on the ice - The Hungarian ladies - Turkish formalities - Scraps of ...
... King of Poland - Leipzig fair - Fortifications and their de- scription • To the same , Nov. 23. - Arrival at ... kings - Solyman the Magnificent - Crossing the Danube on the ice - The Hungarian ladies - Turkish formalities - Scraps of ...
Page xxi
... King's cabinet of antiquities - Le Brun - The Archangel of Raphael -The Tuilleries - Paris and London contrasted . * To Mr. P. No date . - Sights of Paris - Staring à la mode— French manners - Infancy and manhood - The statue of Jupiter ...
... King's cabinet of antiquities - Le Brun - The Archangel of Raphael -The Tuilleries - Paris and London contrasted . * To Mr. P. No date . - Sights of Paris - Staring à la mode— French manners - Infancy and manhood - The statue of Jupiter ...
Page xxiv
... King of France - The Duke of Bedford and his bride - Mrs . Murray and Mr. Dodington - Lord Carteret's wit 1725. - The folly of mankind an inexhaustible source of amuse- ment - No smoke without fire - Lady Lechmere's losses at play at ...
... King of France - The Duke of Bedford and his bride - Mrs . Murray and Mr. Dodington - Lord Carteret's wit 1725. - The folly of mankind an inexhaustible source of amuse- ment - No smoke without fire - Lady Lechmere's losses at play at ...
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... King , who says that a man that settles his estate does not know that 2 and 2 make 4 . His wife has £ 4000 down , and has had £ 4000 since ; and though he loved her better than he did anybody , he rather chose to ven- ture losing her ...
... King , who says that a man that settles his estate does not know that 2 and 2 make 4 . His wife has £ 4000 down , and has had £ 4000 since ; and though he loved her better than he did anybody , he rather chose to ven- ture losing her ...
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Page 185 - I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this useful invention into fashion in England; and I should not fail to write to some of our doctors very particularly about it, if I knew any one of them that I thought had virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of their revenue, for the good of mankind.