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Página 58
... may almost say , I think at all ; and it is on Sunday that I write this long rigmarol .
I leave these things to your own consideration , claiming no superiority ; and
would rather yield a point at any time than enter into controversy , which is
endless .
... may almost say , I think at all ; and it is on Sunday that I write this long rigmarol .
I leave these things to your own consideration , claiming no superiority ; and
would rather yield a point at any time than enter into controversy , which is
endless .
Página 87
I could write away with great ease ; but on looking back to what I have written , I
think you have enough of the goodness . The above has lain by me a long time ;
and having now taken it into my head to send you a letter , I have not time to write
...
I could write away with great ease ; but on looking back to what I have written , I
think you have enough of the goodness . The above has lain by me a long time ;
and having now taken it into my head to send you a letter , I have not time to write
...
Página 274
If you write soon after the receipt of this , I shall have the pleasure of hearing from
you again before I come north ; and pray , if you do write , give me at least
measure for measure . The only fault of your letters is their ending too soon .
If you write soon after the receipt of this , I shall have the pleasure of hearing from
you again before I come north ; and pray , if you do write , give me at least
measure for measure . The only fault of your letters is their ending too soon .
Página 354
This I take to be the summum bonum of good writing . I hope your Lordships ... I
have read this part with great delectation ; and shall soon write a short
commentary , which will be sent for your Lordships perusal . I have the honour to
be , & c .
This I take to be the summum bonum of good writing . I hope your Lordships ... I
have read this part with great delectation ; and shall soon write a short
commentary , which will be sent for your Lordships perusal . I have the honour to
be , & c .
Página 419
The effusions of your own humour , if you have leisure to write , will afford matter
of endless laughter . Such a Magazine is a right thing in our country . The Scotch
have sense enough to instruct , and wit enough to divert one another : and you ...
The effusions of your own humour , if you have leisure to write , will afford matter
of endless laughter . Such a Magazine is a right thing in our country . The Scotch
have sense enough to instruct , and wit enough to divert one another : and you ...
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Página 339 - Parliament, was a feeling of some decline in his health, which had rather suffered from the long sittings and late hours with which the political warfare in the last had been attended. Though without any fixed disease, his strength was visibly declining; and though his spirits survived his strength, yet the vigour and activity of his mind were also considerably impaired. Both continued gradually to decline, till his death, which happened on Saturday the 9th July 1785, in the 71st year of his age.
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| Título | Memoirs of the life, writings and correspondence of W. Smellie, Volume 1 Memoirs of the life, writings and correspondence of W. Smellie, Robert Kerr |
| Autor | Robert Kerr |
| Publicado | 1811 |
| Original de | Oxford University |
| Digitalizado | 16 jun. 2006 |
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