The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 1G. Bell, 1887 - 953 pages |
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Page viii
... appears from his Preface to have been aware of these defects , but to have been under the im- pression that they had been remedied . In numerous instances single letters were found to be composed of several letters , or made up from ...
... appears from his Preface to have been aware of these defects , but to have been under the im- pression that they had been remedied . In numerous instances single letters were found to be composed of several letters , or made up from ...
Page ix
... appears in the fact that mere errors of transcription or printing , in the dates in that edition , though palpable , from the very position of the letters , have been copied in every subsequent publication . The letters written during ...
... appears in the fact that mere errors of transcription or printing , in the dates in that edition , though palpable , from the very position of the letters , have been copied in every subsequent publication . The letters written during ...
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... appears to have been a no less remarkable person . She died at ninety - six , after Lady Mary's return from the East . When Evelyn Pierrepont married he had one elder brother , then Earl of Kingston , still living , and he had not yet ...
... appears to have been a no less remarkable person . She died at ninety - six , after Lady Mary's return from the East . When Evelyn Pierrepont married he had one elder brother , then Earl of Kingston , still living , and he had not yet ...
Page xxix
... appears to have begun with reading greedily works of fiction and enter- tainment , the old courtly romances then in fashion ; and among the Wortley papers are some fragments of romantic stories in her own neat handwriting , which appear ...
... appears to have begun with reading greedily works of fiction and enter- tainment , the old courtly romances then in fashion ; and among the Wortley papers are some fragments of romantic stories in her own neat handwriting , which appear ...
Page xxx
... appears to have been the favourite , and some of the letters which passed between them have been preserved , and are among the published letters . Miss Anne Wortley's letters were , however , generally composed by her brother , and the ...
... appears to have been the favourite , and some of the letters which passed between them have been preserved , and are among the published letters . Miss Anne Wortley's letters were , however , generally composed by her brother , and the ...
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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.