The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 1G. Bell, 1887 - 953 pages |
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... sides . In the gradual change of manners the English people of Lady Mary's time have become to us , in some degree , as aliens and objects of curious observation , whose points of divergence from our standards it is in like manner hard ...
... sides . In the gradual change of manners the English people of Lady Mary's time have become to us , in some degree , as aliens and objects of curious observation , whose points of divergence from our standards it is in like manner hard ...
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... side - saddle seen in Adrianople - Turtles and storks - Description of the houses - The chiosk — The public inns · • • To Mrs. Hewet , April 1. - Want of leisure to write - Travels through European Turkey - Health of the family To the ...
... side - saddle seen in Adrianople - Turtles and storks - Description of the houses - The chiosk — The public inns · • • To Mrs. Hewet , April 1. - Want of leisure to write - Travels through European Turkey - Health of the family To the ...
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... side , with whom Lady Mary tells us she maintained a " regular commerce " when a girl , 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 ...
... side , with whom Lady Mary tells us she maintained a " regular commerce " when a girl , 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 ...
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... side generally discoverable in lovers ' despair , and strives hard to fortify herself in her citadel of womanly modesty and prudent reserve . She bids him expect all that is complaisant , but never what is fond ; and calmly assures him ...
... side generally discoverable in lovers ' despair , and strives hard to fortify herself in her citadel of womanly modesty and prudent reserve . She bids him expect all that is complaisant , but never what is fond ; and calmly assures him ...
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... side , already mentioned . She was now upwards of ninety years of age , and her granddaughter informs us that she retained to the last her vivacity and uncommon clearness of understanding . On some of these , and on the other persons ...
... side , already mentioned . She was now upwards of ninety years of age , and her granddaughter informs us that she retained to the last her vivacity and uncommon clearness of understanding . On some of these , and on the other persons ...
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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.