 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 pages
...songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 pages
...songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 pages
...songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pages
...ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds-with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
 | 742 pages
...that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming lettters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or anybody, and laughs both at the clergy nud the philosopher. In a dispute, into which she rarely falls, she is very warm, and yet scarce ever... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters...the wrong: her judgment on every subject is as just aa possible ; on every point of conduct as wrong as possible : for she is all love and hatred, passionate... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to biro, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or anybody, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers." She died in 1780, at the age of eighty-four. Of the Duchess de Choiseul, he says, in the same letter,... | |
 | 1841 - 534 pages
...songs and epigrams —aye, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire; dictates charming letters...and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she very easily falls, she is very warm, yet scarce ever in the wrong. Her judgment on every subject is... | |
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Versailles; gives suppers twice a week ; has everything new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts... 
