Retrospective Review, Volume 3C. and H. Baldwyn, 1820 |
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... French version an English one had been framed , by Alexander Ross , who could not , of course , rectify the blunders of his original , and being but indifferently acquainted with the French language added many of his own.- Such a ...
... French version an English one had been framed , by Alexander Ross , who could not , of course , rectify the blunders of his original , and being but indifferently acquainted with the French language added many of his own.- Such a ...
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... French are much the same people now as they were two centu- ries ago . We will , in the first place , extract the author's account of the French men and women , which has a good deal of the point and felicity of the " Characters " which ...
... French are much the same people now as they were two centu- ries ago . We will , in the first place , extract the author's account of the French men and women , which has a good deal of the point and felicity of the " Characters " which ...
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... French cookes , but their skill lyeth not in the neat handling of beef and mutton . They have ( as generally have all this nation ) good fancies , and are speciall fellowes for the making of puff pastes and the ordering of banquets ...
... French cookes , but their skill lyeth not in the neat handling of beef and mutton . They have ( as generally have all this nation ) good fancies , and are speciall fellowes for the making of puff pastes and the ordering of banquets ...
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... French character , and this will ac- count for the unfavourable colours in which he has delineated it . James the First , to whom his Geography had been pre- sented , having , in an unpropitious moment , stumbled upon a pas- sage in ...
... French character , and this will ac- count for the unfavourable colours in which he has delineated it . James the First , to whom his Geography had been pre- sented , having , in an unpropitious moment , stumbled upon a pas- sage in ...
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... French women are most unlucky , Don Quixote did not so deservedly assume to himself the name of the knight of the ill- favoured face , as may they that of the damosells of it . It was , there- fore , a happy speech of a young French ...
... French women are most unlucky , Don Quixote did not so deservedly assume to himself the name of the knight of the ill- favoured face , as may they that of the damosells of it . It was , there- fore , a happy speech of a young French ...
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