Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann: His Britannic Majesty's Resident at the Court of Florence, from 1760 to 1785. Now First Published from the Original Mss, Том 2Lea & Blanchard, 1844 |
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... hope , that I am entirely recovered . You shall believe , if you please that a moment of bootikins weakened you ; but allow me to be certain that above three years of experience has demonstrated that they do not weaken me ; and as to ...
... hope , that I am entirely recovered . You shall believe , if you please that a moment of bootikins weakened you ; but allow me to be certain that above three years of experience has demonstrated that they do not weaken me ; and as to ...
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... hope there will be a little more wisdom in making the peace than there was in making the war ; but they who make the one , do not always consider that they may not be equally masters to make the other . There is scarcely any thing of ...
... hope there will be a little more wisdom in making the peace than there was in making the war ; but they who make the one , do not always consider that they may not be equally masters to make the other . There is scarcely any thing of ...
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... hope our name and race , or if , on a grander scale , we wish the constitution of our country may last , are not those lofty views confined to two or three hundred years , which are but a moment in the revolution of endless centuries ...
... hope our name and race , or if , on a grander scale , we wish the constitution of our country may last , are not those lofty views confined to two or three hundred years , which are but a moment in the revolution of endless centuries ...
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... hope , unless we can recover it with half the number that was not sufficient last year . Adieu ! I shall be impatient to hear you are recovered . Your new Prince of Nassaut is perfectly ridiculous - a real peer of England to tumble down ...
... hope , unless we can recover it with half the number that was not sufficient last year . Adieu ! I shall be impatient to hear you are recovered . Your new Prince of Nassaut is perfectly ridiculous - a real peer of England to tumble down ...
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... hope he is gone home , thinking France the most trifling nation in Europe . I am extremely glad that Lady Lucy is so much mended , and I trust she will live to reward your nephew's great merit towards her . I do believe , with your ...
... hope he is gone home , thinking France the most trifling nation in Europe . I am extremely glad that Lady Lucy is so much mended , and I trust she will live to reward your nephew's great merit towards her . I do believe , with your ...
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