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Page 97
So it would have been better for this nation if Lord Bute had never been minister ,
or had never resigned . ” In the evening we went to the Town - hall , which was
converted into a temporary theatre , and saw “ Theodosius , " with “ The Stratford
...
So it would have been better for this nation if Lord Bute had never been minister ,
or had never resigned . ” In the evening we went to the Town - hall , which was
converted into a temporary theatre , and saw “ Theodosius , " with “ The Stratford
...
Page 234
... I was very intimate with that gentleman , and was once relieved by him from an
arrest ; but I never was present when he was arrested , never knew that he was
arrested , and I believe he never was in difficulties after the time when he relieved
...
... I was very intimate with that gentleman , and was once relieved by him from an
arrest ; but I never was present when he was arrested , never knew that he was
arrested , and I believe he never was in difficulties after the time when he relieved
...
Page 236
Sir ( said he , ) I should never hear it , if it made me such a fool . ” Much of the
effect of musick , I am satisfied , is owing to association of ideas . That air , which
instantly and irresistibly excites in the Swiss , when in a foreign land , the maladie
du ...
Sir ( said he , ) I should never hear it , if it made me such a fool . ” Much of the
effect of musick , I am satisfied , is owing to association of ideas . That air , which
instantly and irresistibly excites in the Swiss , when in a foreign land , the maladie
du ...
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