The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 1G. Bell, 1887 - 953 pages |
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... dear madam , I grant it a very fine thing to continue always fifteen - that everybody must approve of ; it is quite ... sister , Miss in jest or in earnest , could never affront or cxviii INTRODUCTORY ANECDOTES .
... dear madam , I grant it a very fine thing to continue always fifteen - that everybody must approve of ; it is quite ... sister , Miss in jest or in earnest , could never affront or cxviii INTRODUCTORY ANECDOTES .
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... dear Mrs. Hewet does not believe that I follow my inclination , when I am two or three posts before I return thanks ... sister , married Major- General William Selwyn , of Matson , in Gloucestershire . - D . a Mr. Cassotti.1 I am afraid ...
... dear Mrs. Hewet does not believe that I follow my inclination , when I am two or three posts before I return thanks ... sister , married Major- General William Selwyn , of Matson , in Gloucestershire . - D . a Mr. Cassotti.1 I am afraid ...
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... dear Mrs. Hewet , I should think her no longer in the land of the living , if Mr. Resingade did not assure me he was ... sister in Arlington Street . - T . out two or three bricks , and so climb up 1711. ] 31 LETTERS TO MRS . HEWET .
... dear Mrs. Hewet , I should think her no longer in the land of the living , if Mr. Resingade did not assure me he was ... sister in Arlington Street . - T . out two or three bricks , and so climb up 1711. ] 31 LETTERS TO MRS . HEWET .
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... sister Evelyn , who will be married next week . The post - bell rings ; my next shall be longer , with some account of your fair family . TO MRS . HEWET . 4 I WOULD willingly return dear Mrs. Hewet something more , for diverting me so ...
... sister Evelyn , who will be married next week . The post - bell rings ; my next shall be longer , with some account of your fair family . TO MRS . HEWET . 4 I WOULD willingly return dear Mrs. Hewet something more , for diverting me so ...
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... dear Mrs. Wortley , that you are so just to me , to believe could not leave ... dear . My letter should be longer , if it was possible to make it so without you ... sister of Edward Wortley Montagu , Esq . , Lady Mary's husband . - W . Mr ...
... dear Mrs. Wortley , that you are so just to me , to believe could not leave ... dear . My letter should be longer , if it was possible to make it so without you ... sister of Edward Wortley Montagu , Esq . , Lady Mary's husband . - W . Mr ...
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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.