 I not only suppressed the letter while you stayed there, out of delicacy to you, but it was the reason why, out of delicacy to myself, I did not go to see him as you often proposed to me, thinking it wrong to go and make a cordial visit to a man, with...  The British Prose Writers - Page 1291821Full view - About this book
 | 1808 - 1142 pages
...there, of which I can give you a strong proof, for I not only suppressed the letter while you 'staid there, out of delicacy to you ; but it was the reason why, put of delicacy to myself, I did not go to see him, as you often proposed to me, thinking it wrong... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 556 pages
...there, of which I can give you a strong proof, for I not only suppressed the letter while you staid there, out of delicacy to you ; but it was the reason why, out of delicacy to myself, 1 did not go to see him, as you of» ten proposed to me, thinking it wrong to go and make a cordial... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English letters - 1830 - 356 pages
...before you left Paris, and before Rousseau's arrival there, of which I can give you a strong proof; for I not only suppressed the letter while you stayed...cordial visit to a man, with a letter in my pocket to langh at him. Yon are at full liberty, dear sir, to make use of what I say in your justification, either... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...there, of which 1 can give you a strong proof; for I not only suppressed the letter while you staid there, out of delicacy to you ; but it was the reason...and make a cordial visit to a man, with a letter in 1 On the celebrated quarrel between Hume and Rousseau, D'Alombert, and the other literary friends of... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...before you left Paris, and before Rousseau's arrival there, of which I can give you a strong proof; for I not only suppressed the letter while you stayed...it was the reason why, out of delicacy to myself, 1 did not go to see him, as you often proposed to me, thinking it wrong to go and make a cordial visit... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...before you left Paris, and before Rousseau's arrival there, of which I can give you a strong proof ; for I not only suppressed the letter while you stayed...it was the reason why, out of delicacy to myself, 1 did not go to see him, as you often proposed to me, thinking it wrong to go and make a cordial visit... | |
 | Joseph Curtis Platt, George Lillie Craik - London (England) - 1851 - 860 pages
...before you left Paris, and before Rousseau's arrival there, of which I can give you a strong proof; for I not only suppressed the letter while you stayed...visit to a man, with a letter in my pocket to laugh at him."J We have a suspicion that Walpole's delicacy was sometimes measured by his cowardice. Warburton,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 324 pages
...before you left Paris, and before Rousseau's arrival there, of which I can give you a strong proof ; for I not only suppressed the letter while you stayed...man, with a letter in my pocket to laugh at him."^ * Horace Walpole to Cole, January 18, 1766. •f Horace Walpole to Hume, July 26, 1766. We have a suspicion... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 362 pages
...before you left Paris, and before Rousseau's arrival there, of which I can give you a strong proof; for I not only suppressed the letter while you stayed...visit to a man, with a letter in my pocket to laugh at him."-f* Horace Walpole to Cole, January 18, 1766. f Horace Walpole to Hume, July 26, 1766. We have... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 600 pages
...of which I can give you a strong proof; fur I not only suppressed the letter while you stayed thero. out of delicacy to you, but it was the reason why....visit to a man, with a letter in my pocket to laugh at him.'t We have a suspicion that NValpolo's delicacy was sometime* measured by his cowardice. AVarburton,... | |
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