The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 1G. Bell, 1887 - 953 pages |
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... Leave Peterwaradin - The battle- field of Carlowitz - A state of nature a state of war - Arrival at Belgrade - The janissaries and their pasha - Achmet Beg —Arabian poetry - Desire to leave Belgrade To her Royal Highness the Princess of ...
... Leave Peterwaradin - The battle- field of Carlowitz - A state of nature a state of war - Arrival at Belgrade - The janissaries and their pasha - Achmet Beg —Arabian poetry - Desire to leave Belgrade To her Royal Highness the Princess of ...
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... Leaving Adrianople - Some description of the place - The Exchange - Privileges of the Jews - English , French , and Italian merchants - The pasha of three tails - March of the troops to the frontiers - The procession through the ...
... Leaving Adrianople - Some description of the place - The Exchange - Privileges of the Jews - English , French , and Italian merchants - The pasha of three tails - March of the troops to the frontiers - The procession through the ...
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... leaving Constantinople - Knolles and Sir Paul Rycaut - The sweat- ing pillar of Mr. Hill - Pleasures enjoyed by the Turkish women - A Turkish bride - Ceremonies used on the occasion -A Spanish woman married to a Turk - The custom of ...
... leaving Constantinople - Knolles and Sir Paul Rycaut - The sweat- ing pillar of Mr. Hill - Pleasures enjoyed by the Turkish women - A Turkish bride - Ceremonies used on the occasion -A Spanish woman married to a Turk - The custom of ...
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... leave it neither day nor night . Observe my vanity . In that letter alone I have fancied myself capable of perceiving the singularity of your cha- racter and the infinite charms of mind . " 1 your Other letters follow , in which M ...
... leave it neither day nor night . Observe my vanity . In that letter alone I have fancied myself capable of perceiving the singularity of your cha- racter and the infinite charms of mind . " 1 your Other letters follow , in which M ...
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... leave Avignon for Northern Italy , which having become , after the unsuccessful rebellion of 1745 , more than ever a place of refuge for English Jacobites , was for her , whom they suspected to be a spy , an inconvenient residence . The ...
... leave Avignon for Northern Italy , which having become , after the unsuccessful rebellion of 1745 , more than ever a place of refuge for English Jacobites , was for her , whom they suspected to be a spy , an inconvenient residence . 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.