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Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement - Page 216
by Robert Plumer Ward - 1825
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 17

1825 - 806 pages
...grace retired to C'larcinont, where, for about a fortnight, he played at being a country gentleman. Guns and green frocks were bought, and at past sixty...country was once more blessed with his assistance. t To a philosopher, or even a courtier, there is not a more useful lesson, or more interesting picture,...
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The British review and London critical journal

1822 - 526 pages
...Claremont, where, for. about a fortnight, he played at being a country gentleman. Guns and green fropks were bought, and at past sixty he affected to turn...getting wet in his feet, he hurried back to London ia a fright, and his country was once more blessed with his sfssi^tance." The Chancellor also retired;...
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Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 1

Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 370 pages
...His grace retired to Claremonr, where, for about a fortnight, he played at being a country gentleman. Guns and green frocks were bought, and at past sixty...interesting picture than this poor man exhibits, as drawn by Marmontel, relating merely what he saw and heard. " Oh ! mesenfans," says he, " quelle maladie incurable...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 17

1825 - 810 pages
...His grace retired to Claremont, where, for about a fortnight, he played at being a country gentleman. Guns and green frocks were bought, and at past sixty...country was once more blessed with his assistance. t To a philosopher, or even a courtier, there is not a more useful lesson, or more interesting picture,...
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Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 1

Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 732 pages
...retired to Claremont, where, for about a fortnight, he played at being a country gentleman. Guns aud green frocks were bought, and at past sixty he affected...country was once more blessed with his assistance. | To a philosopher, or even a courtier, there is nol a more useful lesson, or more interesting picture...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 17

1825 - 848 pages
...fortnight, he played at being я country gentleman. Guns and green frocks were bought, and at pust sixty he affected to turn sportsman ; but getting wet in his feet, he hurried back to London in n fright, and his country was once more blessed with his assistance. t To a philosopher, or even a...
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Tremaine ; Or, The Man of Refinement, Volumes 1-2

Robert Plumer Ward - 1836 - 780 pages
...His Grace retired to Claremont, where, for about a fortnight, he played at being a country gentleman. Guns and green frocks were bought, and at past sixty...country was once more blessed with his assistance. * To a philosopher, or even a courtier, there is not a more useful lesson, or more interesting picture...
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Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volume 7

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...played at being a country gentleman. Guns and green frocks were bought, and at past sixty he •ffeeted to turn sportsman ; but getting wet in his feet, he...country was once more blessed with his assistance. j To a philosopher, or even a courtier, there is not a more useful lesson, or more interesting picture,...
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1755-1757 ; Appendix

Horace Walpole - 1846 - 446 pages
...they declined that honour. mont, where, for about a fortnight, he played at being a country gentleman. Guns and green frocks were bought, and at past sixty,...country was once more blessed with his assistance. Newcastle's resignation was on the 19th followed by that of the Chancellor. Great endeavours had been...
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Memoirs of the court of England during the reigns of William and Mary, Queen ...

John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 448 pages
...Walpole, " retired to Claremont ; where, for about a fortnight, he played at being a country gentleman. Guns and green frocks were bought, and, at past sixty,...country was once more blessed with his assistance." On the formation of a new ministry, in June the following year, the duke again found himself at the...
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