Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... scarce were my infantine tears dried for leaving dear Llewenney and my half - adored uncle , before the news reached London of his sudden death by an apoplectic fit ; in consequence of which , his brother , Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton ...
... scarce were my infantine tears dried for leaving dear Llewenney and my half - adored uncle , before the news reached London of his sudden death by an apoplectic fit ; in consequence of which , his brother , Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton ...
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... there on account of his correspondence with the Electress Sophia . * This * Sir William Wraxall , in his Historical Memoirs ( vol . i . p . 304 ) , Certain it is that Lady Cotton was scarce fifteen years 14 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS .
... there on account of his correspondence with the Electress Sophia . * This * Sir William Wraxall , in his Historical Memoirs ( vol . i . p . 304 ) , Certain it is that Lady Cotton was scarce fifteen years 14 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS .
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Hester Lynch Piozzi Abraham Hayward. Certain it is that Lady Cotton was scarce fifteen years older than her own eldest son , my dear Uncle Robert , husband of Lady Betty Tollemache ; which she considered as little to the honour of her ...
Hester Lynch Piozzi Abraham Hayward. Certain it is that Lady Cotton was scarce fifteen years older than her own eldest son , my dear Uncle Robert , husband of Lady Betty Tollemache ; which she considered as little to the honour of her ...
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... scarce all of us enough to manage with my father's red - hot temper . It was daily endangering our alienation of Sir Thomas Salusbury's fondness , which the arrival of a new neighbour put still more to hazard . We should have made home ...
... scarce all of us enough to manage with my father's red - hot temper . It was daily endangering our alienation of Sir Thomas Salusbury's fondness , which the arrival of a new neighbour put still more to hazard . We should have made home ...
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... scarce ever saw or wrote to either of us ; leaving me to conciliate as I could , a husband who was indeed much kinder than I counted on , to a plain girl , who had not one attrac- tion in his eyes , and on whom he never had thrown five ...
... scarce ever saw or wrote to either of us ; leaving me to conciliate as I could , a husband who was indeed much kinder than I counted on , to a plain girl , who had not one attrac- tion in his eyes , and on whom he never had thrown five ...
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