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" Besides the modern advantage of coffeehouses in this great city, before which men knew not how to be acquainted but with their own relations or societies, I might add that I come of a longaevous race, by which means I have wiped some feathers off the... "
Table Traits with Something on Them - Page 60
by Dr. Doran (John) - 1859 - 489 pages
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Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth ...

John Aubrey - English letters - 1813 - 366 pages
...wc.h hath made me so well knowne. Besides the moderne advantage of coffee-bowses in this great citie ; before which men knew not how to be acquainted, but with their owne relations, or societies : I might add, that I come of a longevous race, by which meanes I have...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 5

Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 338 pages
...Aubrey, the small Boswell of his day, attributes his general acquaintance to "the modern advantage of coffeehouses in this great city, before which men...acquainted, but with their own relations, and societies:" a curious statement, which proves the moral connexion with society of all sedentary recreations which...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 5

Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1823 - 334 pages
...Aubrey, the small Boswell of his day, attributes his general acquaintance to " the modern advantage of coffeehouses in this great city, before which men...acquainted, but with their own relations, and societies :" a curious statement, which proves the moral connexion with society of all sedentary recreations...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben ..., Volume 13

Anecdotes - 1826 - 374 pages
...attributes that general acquaintance, from which his miscellanies derive so much of their value, to " the modern advantages of coffee-houses in this great...acquainted but with their own relations and societies. " ACQUAINTANCE MAKING. In days of yore, when the social feeling was more characteristic of English...
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Leigh Hunt's London Journal, Volumes 1-2

Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...Aubrey, the small Boswell of his day, attributes his general acquaintance to the " modern advantage of coffee-houses in this great city, before which men knew not how to be acquainted, but with their relations and societies ;" a curious statement, which proves the moral connexion with society of all...
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Curiosities of Literature

Isaac Disraeli, Jsaac D'Jsraeli - English literature - 1835 - 524 pages
...Boswell of his day, attributes his general acquaintance to ' ili' • modern advantage of coffee houses in this great city , before which men knew not how...acquainted But with their own relations, and societies :' a curious statement, which proves the moral connexion with society of all sedentary recreations...
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Curiosities of Literature: Second series

Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1835 - 474 pages
...Bos well of his day, attributes his general acquaintance to ' the modern advantage of coffee houses m this great city, before which men knew not how to...acquainted but with their own relations, and societies :' a curious statement, which proves the moral connexion with society of all sedentary recreations...
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William Shakspere: A Biography, Book 2

Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...been much tumbled up and down in it ; which hath made me so well known. Besides the modern advantage of coffeehouses in this great city, before which men...how to be acquainted but with their own relations or societies, 1 might add that I come of a longaevous race, by which means I have wiped some feathers...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 34

American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...nothing but Bonny Clabber all their days." Aubrey commends " the modern advantage of coffeehouses, before which men knew not how to be acquainted but with their own relations." Another writer testifies to " the sage and solid reasonings here frequently to be heard of experienced...
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Curiosities of Literature: And the Literary Character Illustrated

Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1846 - 530 pages
...Bos well of his day, attributes his general acquaint* ance to ' the modern advantage of coffee houses in this great city, before which men knew not how...acquainted but with their own relations, and societies :' a curious statement, which proves the moral connexion with society of all sedentary recreations...
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