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... , is a Briton's country . " This bon mot gave a fillip to my spirits , I rose and looked round on my fellow- passengers , who were all on the deck . We were eighteen in number , videlicet , five English- men SATYRANE'S LETTERS. ...
... , is a Briton's country . " This bon mot gave a fillip to my spirits , I rose and looked round on my fellow- passengers , who were all on the deck . We were eighteen in number , videlicet , five English- men SATYRANE'S LETTERS. ...
Page 184
... English- men , an English lady , a French gentleman and his servant , an Hanoverian and his servant , a Prussian , a Swede , two Danes , and a Mulatto boy , a German tailor and his wife ( the smallest couple I ever beheld ) and a Jew ...
... English- men , an English lady , a French gentleman and his servant , an Hanoverian and his servant , a Prussian , a Swede , two Danes , and a Mulatto boy , a German tailor and his wife ( the smallest couple I ever beheld ) and a Jew ...
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... English with such fluency , as left me wholly unable to account for the singular and even ludicrous incorrectness with which he spoke it . I went , and found some excellent wines and a desert of grapes with a pine apple . The Danes had ...
... English with such fluency , as left me wholly unable to account for the singular and even ludicrous incorrectness with which he spoke it . I went , and found some excellent wines and a desert of grapes with a pine apple . The Danes had ...
Page 188
... English very fine ? ANSW . Most admirably ! Believe me , Sir ! I have seldom heard even a native talk so fluently . THE DANE . ( squeezing my hand with great vehemence ) My dear friend ! vat an affection and fidelity we have for each ...
... English very fine ? ANSW . Most admirably ! Believe me , Sir ! I have seldom heard even a native talk so fluently . THE DANE . ( squeezing my hand with great vehemence ) My dear friend ! vat an affection and fidelity we have for each ...
Page 192
... English pronunciation , he was constantly defer- ring to my superior judgment , whether or no I had pronounced this or that word with propriety , or " the true delicacy . " When he spoke , though it were only half a dozen sentences , he ...
... English pronunciation , he was constantly defer- ring to my superior judgment , whether or no I had pronounced this or that word with propriety , or " the true delicacy . " When he spoke , though it were only half a dozen sentences , he ...
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