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Side xix
... language , vernacular at Lausanne , condemned him to a weari- some solitude : the dissatisfaction of his father straitened him by a very scanty allowance ; the parsimony of Madame Pavilliard , the minister's wife , inflicted on him all ...
... language , vernacular at Lausanne , condemned him to a weari- some solitude : the dissatisfaction of his father straitened him by a very scanty allowance ; the parsimony of Madame Pavilliard , the minister's wife , inflicted on him all ...
Side xxii
... language , if his friend , Lord Sheffield , while defending him against this charge of arranging what he intended to say before he spoke , had not admitted , that even before writing a note or a letter , he com- pletely arranged in his ...
... language , if his friend , Lord Sheffield , while defending him against this charge of arranging what he intended to say before he spoke , had not admitted , that even before writing a note or a letter , he com- pletely arranged in his ...
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... language . " Yet , in another part of his Memoirs , he owned that it was from a French work , Les Lettres Provinciales of Pascal , which he perused almost every year , that he " learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony ...
... language . " Yet , in another part of his Memoirs , he owned that it was from a French work , Les Lettres Provinciales of Pascal , which he perused almost every year , that he " learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony ...
Side xxvii
... language was grown less familiar . " He could not at that period write a letter fluently in English ; and even towards the close of his life , he used in his correspondence Gallicisms , which , fearing that they might not be otherwise ...
... language was grown less familiar . " He could not at that period write a letter fluently in English ; and even towards the close of his life , he used in his correspondence Gallicisms , which , fearing that they might not be otherwise ...
Side xxxii
... their dominions were contracted to the limits of a single city , in which the language , as well as man- ners , of the ancient Romans , had been long since forgotten . The a writer who should undertake to relate the events of this.
... their dominions were contracted to the limits of a single city , in which the language , as well as man- ners , of the ancient Romans , had been long since forgotten . The a writer who should undertake to relate the events of this.
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