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The appeal about to be hazarded on behalf of Mrs . Piozzi will involve little or no
risk of this kind . Her ill - wishers made the most of the event which so injuriously
affected her reputation at the time of its occurrence ; and the marked tendency of
...
The appeal about to be hazarded on behalf of Mrs . Piozzi will involve little or no
risk of this kind . Her ill - wishers made the most of the event which so injuriously
affected her reputation at the time of its occurrence ; and the marked tendency of
...
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Do not remit the practice of writing down occurrences as they arise , of whatever
kind , and be very punctual in annexing the dates . Chronology , you know , is the
eye of history . Do not omit painful casualties or unpleasing passages ; they ...
Do not remit the practice of writing down occurrences as they arise , of whatever
kind , and be very punctual in annexing the dates . Chronology , you know , is the
eye of history . Do not omit painful casualties or unpleasing passages ; they ...
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His son he wisely connected with the Cobhams and their relations , Grenvilles ,
Lyttletons , and Pitts , to whom he lent money , and they lent assistance of every
other kind , so that my Mr . Thrale was bred up at Stowe , and Stoke , and Oxford
...
His son he wisely connected with the Cobhams and their relations , Grenvilles ,
Lyttletons , and Pitts , to whom he lent money , and they lent assistance of every
other kind , so that my Mr . Thrale was bred up at Stowe , and Stoke , and Oxford
...
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At the commencement of the acquaintance , he was fifty - six ; an age when
habits are ordinarily fixed ; and many of his were of a kind which it required no
common temper and tact to tolerate or control . They had been formed at a period
when ...
At the commencement of the acquaintance , he was fifty - six ; an age when
habits are ordinarily fixed ; and many of his were of a kind which it required no
common temper and tact to tolerate or control . They had been formed at a period
when ...
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Yet still he fills affection ' s eye , Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor , lettered
Arrogance , deny Thy praise to merit unrefined . ” ' This picture of Johnson ' s
interior is true in the main , when it is added that the inmates of his house were ...
Yet still he fills affection ' s eye , Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor , lettered
Arrogance , deny Thy praise to merit unrefined . ” ' This picture of Johnson ' s
interior is true in the main , when it is added that the inmates of his house were ...
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| Title | Autobiography Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1 |
| Author | Hester Lynch Piozzi |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 4 May 2010 |
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