Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1825 |
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Page iii
... Philosophers , or people of fashion . All , too , run to London . The woods and fields are unpeopled ; the plain mansions and plain manners of our fathers , desert- ed and changed ; every thing is swallowed up by THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE, ...
... Philosophers , or people of fashion . All , too , run to London . The woods and fields are unpeopled ; the plain mansions and plain manners of our fathers , desert- ed and changed ; every thing is swallowed up by THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE, ...
Page iv
Or, The Man of Refinement Robert Plumer Ward. ed and changed ; every thing is swallowed up by a devouring dissipation ; and the simplicities of life are only to be found in books . Yet it is the proper blending of its simplicities with ...
Or, The Man of Refinement Robert Plumer Ward. ed and changed ; every thing is swallowed up by a devouring dissipation ; and the simplicities of life are only to be found in books . Yet it is the proper blending of its simplicities with ...
Page viii
... things as they have been supposed . 4 A question has arisen in the Editor's mind , whe- ther the work is one of fiction , or whether it is not a reality . It is at all events very inartificially con- structed ; and this is one reason ...
... things as they have been supposed . 4 A question has arisen in the Editor's mind , whe- ther the work is one of fiction , or whether it is not a reality . It is at all events very inartificially con- structed ; and this is one reason ...
Page ix
... thing but imaginary . One thing seems certain - that if the author was correct in his half jesting , half serious supposition , that he was writing a treatise on moral philosophy , not a novel , his morals and his philosophy were ...
... thing but imaginary . One thing seems certain - that if the author was correct in his half jesting , half serious supposition , that he was writing a treatise on moral philosophy , not a novel , his morals and his philosophy were ...
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... thing denoted the arrival of a man of consequence , at his seat in the country . It was TREMAINE , a name known in the political world for talents and integrity ; in the fashionable , as an ornament of the higher circles ; and in the ...
... thing denoted the arrival of a man of consequence , at his seat in the country . It was TREMAINE , a name known in the political world for talents and integrity ; in the fashionable , as an ornament of the higher circles ; and in the ...
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