The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volume 4R. Bentley, 1857 |
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... mention hearing from me there . I left your button too in town with old Richard to be transmitted to you . Our drought continues , though we have had one handsome storm . I have been reading the story of Phaeton in the Metamorphoses ...
... mention hearing from me there . I left your button too in town with old Richard to be transmitted to you . Our drought continues , though we have had one handsome storm . I have been reading the story of Phaeton in the Metamorphoses ...
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... mention Ivan . The con- spiracy advanced by one of the gang being seized , though for another crime ; they thought themselves discovered . Orloff , one of them , hurried to the Czarina , and told her she had no time to lose . She was ...
... mention Ivan . The con- spiracy advanced by one of the gang being seized , though for another crime ; they thought themselves discovered . Orloff , one of them , hurried to the Czarina , and told her she had no time to lose . She was ...
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... mentioning acquaintance you have lost , I forgot to name Lady Fane ; you see nervous disorders are not very mortal ; I think she must have been above seventy . 808. TO THE HON . H. S. CONWAY . Strawberry Hill , Sept. 9 , 1762 . Nondum ...
... mentioning acquaintance you have lost , I forgot to name Lady Fane ; you see nervous disorders are not very mortal ; I think she must have been above seventy . 808. TO THE HON . H. S. CONWAY . Strawberry Hill , Sept. 9 , 1762 . Nondum ...
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... mentioned in these advertisements are really objects of charity , and if they are , I will beg you to leave a guinea for each , and put it to my account . Yours ever , DEAR SIR : 811. TO GROSVENOR BEDFORD , ESQ . H. W. I WISH you would ...
... mentioned in these advertisements are really objects of charity , and if they are , I will beg you to leave a guinea for each , and put it to my account . Yours ever , DEAR SIR : 811. TO GROSVENOR BEDFORD , ESQ . H. W. I WISH you would ...
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... mentioned ; so Spain pays a little for the family- compact , besides the loss of her ships , and disappointment of the Crown of Portugal . I believe she relinquished her prospect of the latter to save that of Naples ; a bombarding fleet ...
... mentioned ; so Spain pays a little for the family- compact , besides the loss of her ships , and disappointment of the Crown of Portugal . I believe she relinquished her prospect of the latter to save that of Naples ; a bombarding fleet ...
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Page 271 - A certain man had two sons : and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
Page 271 - And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.
Page 343 - At five, arrived Mr. Mitchell, who said the Lords had begun to read the Poor-bill, which would take at least two hours, and perhaps would debate it afterwards. We concluded dinner would be called for, it not being very precedented for ladies to wait for gentlemen : — no such thing. Six o'clock came, — seven o'clock came, — our coaches came, — well ! we sent them away, and excuses were we were engaged.
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Page 47 - I find nobody knows his lordship's * thoughts on the present state of politics. Perhaps he has none. Now, are you willing, and are you the proper person, to tell Lord Orford that I will do my best to procure this employment for him, if I can soon learn that he desires it ? If he does choose it, I doubt not of his and his friend Boone's' hearty assistance, and believe I shall see you too, much oftener in the House of Commons.
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Page 42 - I forgot to tell you that Gideon, who is dead worth more than the whole land of Canaan, has left the reversion of all his milk and honey, after his son and daughter and their children, to the Duke of Devonshire, without insisting on his taking the name, or even being circumcised.