Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volume 15Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1827 |
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acquaintance Adieu admiration agreeable Almack's amusement answer appear archbishop of Arles arrival assure Bath Bentinck street Beriton bien Boodle's character dæmon DEAR HOLROYD DEAR MADAM dear sir Deyverdun dined dinner Downing street DR PRIESTLEY Dr Watson duchess EDWARD GIBBON embrace my lady England esteem expect favour fear feel flatter France French friendship Geneva give gout happy hear History honour hope humble servant impatience J. B. HOLROYD j'ai journey Lausanne Lenborough letter live London lord North LORD SHEFFIELD Lord Stormont Madame de Stael ment month morning Necker never night o'clock obliged opinion Paris parliament passed perhaps pleasant pleased pleasure political Port Eliot present probably received sentiments Severy Sheffield place sincere soon spirit summer sure Swiss talk thousand Thursday tion town Vaud week winter wish write yesterday
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Page 51 - April 27, 1793. My dearest friend, for such you most truly are, nor does there exist a person who obtains, or shall ever obtain, a superior place in my esteem and affection. After too long a silence I was sitting down to write., when, only yesterday morning (such is now the irregular slowness of the English post) I was suddenly struck, indeed struck to the heart, by the fatal intelligence* from Sir Henry Clinton and M.
Page 304 - Europe, is now about eighteen, wild, vain, but good-natured, and with a much larger provision of wit than of beauty : what increases their difficulties is their religious obstinacy of marrying her only to a Protestant.
Page 306 - Sheffield will tell you is superior to all you can imagine. The climate, though severe in winter, has perfectly agreed with my constitution ; and the year is accomplished without any return of the gout. An excellent house, a good table, a pleasant garden, are no contemptible ingredients in human happiness.
Page 307 - ... with grace and dignity at the head of my table and family ; a fifth, an excellent economist and housekeeper; and a sixth, a very useful nurse. Could I find all these qualities united in a single person, I should dare to make my addresses, and should deserve to be refused.
Page 85 - ... bestow. That my temper, quiet, retired, somewhat reserved, could neither acquire popularity, bear up against opposition, nor mix with ease in the crowds of public life. That even my genius (if you will allow me any) is better qualified for the deliberate compositions of the closet than for the extemporary discourses of the parliament.
Page 176 - ... manner much more useful, as well as agreeable, than they could possibly do by exhibiting a single combat in the amphitheatre of controversy. Mr. Gibbon is therefore determined to resist the temptation of justifying, in a professed reply, any passages of his History which might perhaps be easily cleared from censure and misapprehension ; but he still reserves to himself the privilege of inserting in a future edition some occasional remarks and explanations of his meaning. If any calls of pleasure...