Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell,Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ... and James Ridgway, 1819 - 387 pages |
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... MADAME du deffand's letters . FOLLOWED BY A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM LADY RUSSELL TO HER HUSBAND , WILLIAM LORD RUSSELL ; FROM 1672 TO 1682 ; TOGETHER WITH SOME MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS TO AND FROM LADY RUSSELL .籮 TO WHICH ARE ADDED ...
... MADAME du deffand's letters . FOLLOWED BY A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM LADY RUSSELL TO HER HUSBAND , WILLIAM LORD RUSSELL ; FROM 1672 TO 1682 ; TOGETHER WITH SOME MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS TO AND FROM LADY RUSSELL .籮 TO WHICH ARE ADDED ...
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... Madame votre sœur aussi , ( Lady Elizabeth Noel , ) de les conserver . Elles peuvent servir , puisque il n'y est rien de plus incertain que les evénémens . " - Devonshire MSS . << < x even said by Dalrymple , on the authority of a 11.
... Madame votre sœur aussi , ( Lady Elizabeth Noel , ) de les conserver . Elles peuvent servir , puisque il n'y est rien de plus incertain que les evénémens . " - Devonshire MSS . << < x even said by Dalrymple , on the authority of a 11.
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... Madame de Staël , the belief that Lady Russell was afterwards consulted by the ministers of King William , and by Queen Anne herself , on political measures . See Considerations sur la Revolution Françoise , vol . iii . p . 290 . ( 2 ) ...
... Madame de Staël , the belief that Lady Russell was afterwards consulted by the ministers of King William , and by Queen Anne herself , on political measures . See Considerations sur la Revolution Françoise , vol . iii . p . 290 . ( 2 ) ...
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... Madame de Sévigné may surely be placed at the head of female excellence in their respective countries ; and the entirely separate character of their minds , their modes of thinking , their opinions and their habits of life , may perhaps ...
... Madame de Sévigné may surely be placed at the head of female excellence in their respective countries ; and the entirely separate character of their minds , their modes of thinking , their opinions and their habits of life , may perhaps ...
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... Madame de Sévigné , born while France , under the strong arm of Richelieu , was settling into the quiet of arbitrary power , and making rapid advances in all the refinements , pleasures , and expenses which its policy encourages ...
... Madame de Sévigné , born while France , under the strong arm of Richelieu , was settling into the quiet of arbitrary power , and making rapid advances in all the refinements , pleasures , and expenses which its policy encourages ...
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Page 373 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and...
Page 367 - I come, kind Gentlemen, strange news to tell ye; I am the Ghost of poor departed Nelly. Sweet Ladies, be not frighted; I'le be civil; I'm what I was, a little harmless Devil.
Page 45 - ... and confused as my yet amazed mind is. But such men as you, and particularly one so much my friend, will, I know, bear with my weakness, and compassionate my distress, as you have already done by your good letter and excellent prayer. I...
Page 35 - Now the bitterness of death is past," and ran out into a long discourse concerning her — how great a blessing she had been to him ; and said, what a misery it would have been to him, if she had not had that magnanimity of spirit, joined to her tenderness, as never to have desired him to do a base thing for the saving of his life : VOL.
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Page 46 - ... silent under it; but yet secretly my heart mourns, too sadly I fear, and cannot be comforted, because I have not the dear companion and sharer of all my joys and sorrows. I want him to talk with, to walk with, to eat and sleep with. All these things are irksome to me now: the day unwelcome, and the night so too. All company and meals I would avoid, if it might be...
Page 149 - Alas! from my childhood I can recollect a backwardness to pray, and coldness when I did, and ready to take or seek cause to be absent at the public ones. Even after a sharp sickness and danger at Chelsea, spending my time childishly, if not idly ; and if I had read a few lines in a pious book, contented I had done well. Yet, at the same time, ready to give ear to reports, and possibly malicious ones, and telling my mother-in-law, to please her.
Page 193 - My sister, being here, tells me she overheard you tell her Lord last night, that you would take notice of the business (you know what I mean) in the House ; this alarms me, and I do earnestly beg of you to tell me truly if you have or mean to do it ; if you do, I am most assured you will repent it. I beg once more to know the truth.
Page 247 - I am not like to leave Stratton with greater. They will tell you how well I got hither, and how well I found our dear treasure here : your boy will please you ; you will, I think, find him improved, though I tell you so beforehand. They fancy he wanted you ; for, as soon as I alighted, he followed, calling Papa...
Page 64 - Bueclengh. to be a new project, not depending on, or being linked in the least to any former design, if there was then any real one, which I am satisfied was not no more than (my own lord confessed) talk. And it is possible that talk going so far as to consider, if a remedy to supposed evils might be sought, how it could be found...