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Page 370
Where the subject of the memoir was a good correspondent , ' we enjoy in his letters the nearest substitute for conversation with him . The disadvantages of such epistolary records are , how- ever , in some cases , considerable .
Where the subject of the memoir was a good correspondent , ' we enjoy in his letters the nearest substitute for conversation with him . The disadvantages of such epistolary records are , how- ever , in some cases , considerable .
Page 372
Death , the great reconciler , has disarmed , even of their sound and fury , the hard names which he vouchsafed us in his books , and pretty liberally repeats in his letters . But these terms of improperation , ' as Sir Thomas Browne ...
Death , the great reconciler , has disarmed , even of their sound and fury , the hard names which he vouchsafed us in his books , and pretty liberally repeats in his letters . But these terms of improperation , ' as Sir Thomas Browne ...
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We extract them almost at random from his letters , for no one ever wrote more naturally or unreservedly of himself : I am getting on with my Letters from Portugal . The evenings close in by tea - time , and fire and candle bring with ...
We extract them almost at random from his letters , for no one ever wrote more naturally or unreservedly of himself : I am getting on with my Letters from Portugal . The evenings close in by tea - time , and fire and candle bring with ...
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