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Página 46 - The lower servants, men and women, have laws, which, at their own request, were drawn up by Mrs. Curzon, for the observance of the minutest of their respective duties, with little mulcts, that at first only there was occasion to exact. It is a house of harmony to my hand. Dear madam, what do good people leave to good people to do ? Nothing...
Página 116 - ... and dangers, your letters shall be, if possible, more acceptable to me, than even the presence of the man who is as dear to me as my own soul. I was raised. It was making me great, my dear ladies, to have it in my power, as I may say, to convince Sir Charles Grandison, that my compassion, my love, my admiration, of the noblest of women, was a sincere admiration and love.
Página 337 - The editor of the foregoing collection has the more readily undertaken to publish it" [amiable pretense] "because he thinks human nature has often, of late, been shown in a light too degrading; and he hopes, from this series of letters, it will be seen that characters may be good without being unnatural...
Página 11 - How could Sir Charles, so thorough an Englishman, have been happy with an Italian wife ? His heart, indeed, is generously open and benevolent to people of all countries : he is, as I have often heard you say, in the noblest sense, a citizen of the world: but see we not, that his long residence abroad has only the more endeared him to the religion,, the government, the manners of England?
Página 344 - THE CUTTER, in Five Lectures upon the Art and Practice of Cutting. Lecture 1. Introduction and Definition.
Página 322 - Orangery on the right-hand; that distant clump of Oaklings on the left; the Villa, the Rivulet, before us; the Cascade in view; that Obelisk behind us — Be This the spot to be recollected as witness to the promise, when we are far, far distant from each other.
Página 231 - To fancy herself in love with a mere stranger, because he appeared agreeable at a ball, when she lived happily with a worthy husband, was mistaking mere liking for love, and combating all her life after with a chimera of her own creating. I do not tell you it is impossible for you to meet hereafter with persons in some external accomplishments superior to the deserving man...

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