The Clubs of London: With Anecdotes of Their Members, Sketches of Character, and Conversations, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1828 |
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... French war , he had retired to dine at Bellamy's , with two or three other members . As they were sitting over their wine , a messenger announced that Mr. Pitt was up . Instantly every one hurried down stairs to hear him . Ferguson ...
... French war , he had retired to dine at Bellamy's , with two or three other members . As they were sitting over their wine , a messenger announced that Mr. Pitt was up . Instantly every one hurried down stairs to hear him . Ferguson ...
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... French philosopher , who held that our existence is shortened by every word we articulate — had that theory been a sound one , Jack would never have arrived at manhood . A stage in which I was travelling took him up at his country resi ...
... French philosopher , who held that our existence is shortened by every word we articulate — had that theory been a sound one , Jack would never have arrived at manhood . A stage in which I was travelling took him up at his country resi ...
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... - diately after the peace , to stare and gape , and make blunders in French with nearly all the rest of his countrymen . Arnold contrived , with great dexterity , to draw him into some Parisian details ; 94 THE CLUBS OF LONDON .
... - diately after the peace , to stare and gape , and make blunders in French with nearly all the rest of his countrymen . Arnold contrived , with great dexterity , to draw him into some Parisian details ; 94 THE CLUBS OF LONDON .
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... French table , and in describing those which most pleased him , his memory was sure to betray its usual infelicity ... French cookery , he was eternally extolling it ; but he took care to give it a name more familiar to his English ear ...
... French table , and in describing those which most pleased him , his memory was sure to betray its usual infelicity ... French cookery , he was eternally extolling it ; but he took care to give it a name more familiar to his English ear ...
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... French mode of cooking their partridges , ( these questions were insidiously put for the sake of eliciting some amusing blunder ) he said , he could not bear them served up in shoes . Here we were all at fault for some minutes , till ...
... French mode of cooking their partridges , ( these questions were insidiously put for the sake of eliciting some amusing blunder ) he said , he could not bear them served up in shoes . Here we were all at fault for some minutes , till ...
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