A Select Collection of Original Letters: Written by the Most Eminent Persons, on Various Entertaining Subjects, and on Many Important Occasions: from the Reign of Henry the Eighth, to the Present Time, Volume 2J. and J. Rivington and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755 - English letters |
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... Friends , and the Continuance of their Kindnefs to me , which is the only Error I wish to continue in ' em : for my own part , I am not at all ftung with my Lord M's mean Ambition , but Ï afpire to my Lord I's generous Philofophy : they ...
... Friends , and the Continuance of their Kindnefs to me , which is the only Error I wish to continue in ' em : for my own part , I am not at all ftung with my Lord M's mean Ambition , but Ï afpire to my Lord I's generous Philofophy : they ...
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... Friends are fo , of whom you are no more the leaft than the leaneft . I have better Compliments for you , but that may not . look fo fincere as I would have you believe I am , when I profess my felf , Adderbury , near Banbury , Feb.ult ...
... Friends are fo , of whom you are no more the leaft than the leaneft . I have better Compliments for you , but that may not . look fo fincere as I would have you believe I am , when I profess my felf , Adderbury , near Banbury , Feb.ult ...
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... Friend , fhould break the horrid Silence , and fpeak the moft paffionate fine Things that ever heroick Lover utter'd ... Friends , Companions , and Miftreffes . But it is a miraculous Thing ( as the Wife have it ) when a Man , half in ...
... Friend , fhould break the horrid Silence , and fpeak the moft paffionate fine Things that ever heroick Lover utter'd ... Friends , Companions , and Miftreffes . But it is a miraculous Thing ( as the Wife have it ) when a Man , half in ...
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... Friend as you , is very agreeable ; and there- fore you will eafily believe , I am very ill when I lofe the Opportunity of writing to you : but Mr. Povey comes into my Mind , and hinders far- ther Compliment : in a plainer Way I must ...
... Friend as you , is very agreeable ; and there- fore you will eafily believe , I am very ill when I lofe the Opportunity of writing to you : but Mr. Povey comes into my Mind , and hinders far- ther Compliment : in a plainer Way I must ...
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... Friends , than to languifh all the Day in the Tediousness of doing nothing , that I write to you ; but owning , that ( tho ' you excel moft Men in Friendship and Good - nature ) you are not quite exempt from all human Frailty ; I fend ...
... Friends , than to languifh all the Day in the Tediousness of doing nothing , that I write to you ; but owning , that ( tho ' you excel moft Men in Friendship and Good - nature ) you are not quite exempt from all human Frailty ; I fend ...
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