The Stranger in France: Or, A Tour from Devonshire to Paris |
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... favoured me , and better describe the loss which society sustained when the bias of maternal duty , so worthy of the eulogium it has received from the commemo- rative pen of a Genlis , very early in life withdrew you to Gillwell ; a ...
... favoured me , and better describe the loss which society sustained when the bias of maternal duty , so worthy of the eulogium it has received from the commemo- rative pen of a Genlis , very early in life withdrew you to Gillwell ; a ...
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... favour . The scene was truly interesting , and the sentiment which it excited delightful to the heart . A respectable curé , who dined in the same room with us at our inn , was observed to eat very little ; upon being pressed to enlarge ...
... favour . The scene was truly interesting , and the sentiment which it excited delightful to the heart . A respectable curé , who dined in the same room with us at our inn , was observed to eat very little ; upon being pressed to enlarge ...
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... favours from our clergy , admi- nistered with equal delicacy and munificence . Amongst these groups were some females , the wives and daughters of Toulonese merchants , who left their city when lord Hood abandoned that port . The ...
... favours from our clergy , admi- nistered with equal delicacy and munificence . Amongst these groups were some females , the wives and daughters of Toulonese merchants , who left their city when lord Hood abandoned that port . The ...
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... favoured than the lower order of females in Scotland . Upon a brisk sprightly chamber - maid entering my room one day at an inn in Glasgow , I heard a sound re- sembling the pattering of some web - footed bird , in the act of climbing ...
... favoured than the lower order of females in Scotland . Upon a brisk sprightly chamber - maid entering my room one day at an inn in Glasgow , I heard a sound re- sembling the pattering of some web - footed bird , in the act of climbing ...
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... favours ; and money , though earnestly pressed upon her , she would not -receive . The whole of this interesting party were moved to tears , by this little act of nature and generosity . When they entered their carriage , they found in ...
... favours ; and money , though earnestly pressed upon her , she would not -receive . The whole of this interesting party were moved to tears , by this little act of nature and generosity . When they entered their carriage , they found in ...
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