 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 410 pages
...opinions, you must not conclude their people of quality atheists — at least not the men. Happily for them, poor souls ! they are not capable of going...have acquired nothing in the room of their natural levity and cheerfulness. However, as their high opinion of their own country remains, for which they... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...opinions, you must not conclude their people of quality atheists — at least not the men. Happily for them, poor souls ! they are not capable of going...have acquired nothing in the room of their natural levity and cheerfulness. However, as their high opinion of their own country remains, for which they... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 402 pages
...opinions, you must not conclude their people of quality atheists — at least not the men. Happily for them, poor souls ! they are not capable of going...than the generality, are dull and empty. They have tiikcn up gravity, thinking it was philosophy and English, and so have acquired nothing in the room... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 412 pages
...fluttering, unsettled, and inclined to the philosophers, has made a compromise with the parliamentof Bretagne, the parliaments might venture out again,...have acquired nothing in the room of their natural levity and cheerfulness. However, as their high opinion of their own country remains, for which they... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...opinions, you must not conclude their people of quality atheists — at least, not the men — Happily for them, poor souls ! they are not capable of going...have acquired nothing in the room of their natural levity and cheerfulness. However, as their high opinion of their own country remains, for which they... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...made a compromise with the Parliament of Bretagne, the Parliaments might venture out again, if, as 1 fancy will be the case, they are not glad to drop...have acquired nothing in the room of their natural levity and cheerfulness. However, as their high opinion of then: own country remains, for which they... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...made a compromise with the Parliament of Bretagne, the Parliaments might venture out again, if, as 1 fancy will be the case, they are not glad to drop...have acquired nothing in the room of their natural levity and cheerfulness. However, as their high opinion of their own country remains, for which they... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pages
...case, they are not glad to drop a cause, of which they began to be a little weary of the inconvenience. The generality of the men, and more than the generality,...have acquired nothing in the room of their natural levity and cheerfulness. However, as their high opinion of their own country remains, for which they... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 574 pages
...case, they are not glad to drop a cause, of which they began to be a little weary of the inconvenience. The generality of the men, and more than the generality,...have acquired nothing in the room of their natural levity and cheerfulness. However, as their high opinion of their own country remains, for which they... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 580 pages
...case, they are not glad to drop a cause, of which they began to be a little weary of the inconvenience. The generality of the men, and more than the generality,...have acquired nothing in the room of their natural levity and cheerfulness. However, as their high opinion of their own country remains, for which they... | |
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They hate the parliaments and the philosophers, and are rejoiced that they may still idolize royalty. At present, too, they are a little triumphant : the court has shown a little spirit, and the parliaments much less : but as the due de Choiseul, who... 
