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الصفحة 255 - Paris in spite of my teeth and my doors, and I see has given a foolish account of all he could pick up from me about king Theodore. He then took an antipathy to me on Rousseau's account, abused me in the newspapers, and exhorted Rousseau to do so too : but as he came to see me no more, I forgave all the rest. I see he now is a little sick of Rousseau himself, but I hope it will not cure him of his anger to me.
الصفحة 55 - ... and horsemen constantly in motion, and the fields speckled with cows, horses and sheep. Now you shall walk into the house. The bow-window below leads into a little parlour hung with a stone-colour Gothic paper and Jackson's Venetian prints, which I could never endure while they pretended, infamous as they are, to be after Titian etc.
الصفحة 266 - I heard a very bad account of her when I was last in town. Your letter to Madame Roland shall be taken care of; but as you are so scrupulous of making me pay postage, I must remember not to overcharge you, as I can frank my idle letters no longer; therefore, good night!
الصفحة 114 - The former was so small and bad, one could not avoid pardoning his hollowing out that fragment of the rock Parnassus into habitable chambers — but would you believe it, he has cut down the sacred groves themselves ! In short, it was a little bit of ground of five acres, inclosed with three lanes, and seeing nothing.
الصفحة 3 - tis three months since we heard from you. I begin this letter among the clouds ; where I shall finish, my neighbour Heaven probably knows : 'tis an odd wish in a mortal letter, to hope not to finish it on this side the atmosphere.
الصفحة 144 - Five, six, seven, eight o'clock came, and no Queen — She lay at Witham at Lord Abercorn's, who was most tranquilly in town; and it is not certain even whether she will be composed enough to be in town to-night She has been sick but half an hour; sung and played on the harpsichord all the voyage, and been cheerful the whole time.
الصفحة 178 - If one could honour her more than one did before, it would be to see with what religion she keeps up the old dwelling and customs, as well as old servants, who, you may imagine, do not love her less than other people do.
الصفحة 20 - I have been talking of, you must be informed that every night constantly I go to Ranelagh which has totally beat Vauxhall. Nobody goes anywhere else : everybody goes there. My Lord Chesterfield is so fond of it that he says he has ordered all his letters to be directed thither.
الصفحة 129 - Yet to do the folks justice, they are sensible, and reasonable, and civilised ; their very language is polished since I lived among them. I attribute this to their more frequent intercourse with the world and the capital, by the help of good roads and postchaises, which, if they have abridged the King's dominions, have at least tamed his subjects.