Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Written During the Years 1818, '19 & '20, from Edinburgh, London, The Highlands of Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1J. Maxwell, 1822 - England |
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... Taste for the Physical Sciences - Neglect of Classical learning - Scotch Marriages - Dinner in high life , VIII . - Washington's Birth - day - Happy condition of the United States - Arbuthnot and Ambrister- Scotch dialect , -IX ...
... Taste for the Physical Sciences - Neglect of Classical learning - Scotch Marriages - Dinner in high life , VIII . - Washington's Birth - day - Happy condition of the United States - Arbuthnot and Ambrister- Scotch dialect , -IX ...
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... taste for the Fine Arts- University of Oxford - The Royal visit - St . Mary's College - Happiness of early life , -XXXIX . - To John D. - Smithfield Reform Meeting- Hunt - the Ragged Orator - Singular politi- cal debate -- Mathews AT ...
... taste for the Fine Arts- University of Oxford - The Royal visit - St . Mary's College - Happiness of early life , -XXXIX . - To John D. - Smithfield Reform Meeting- Hunt - the Ragged Orator - Singular politi- cal debate -- Mathews AT ...
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... taste unblest ; Forms like some bedlam - Statuary's dream , The craz'd creations of misguided whim . BURNS . TO JOHN D Edinburgh , December 1 , 1818 . GRAY says that Edinburgh is the most pic- turesque ( at a distance , ) and the ...
... taste unblest ; Forms like some bedlam - Statuary's dream , The craz'd creations of misguided whim . BURNS . TO JOHN D Edinburgh , December 1 , 1818 . GRAY says that Edinburgh is the most pic- turesque ( at a distance , ) and the ...
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... taste and elegance ; but there are several obsti- nate adherents to the old school of fashion , who are attired in such an outlandish style , that it required a great effort to keep my risi ble muscles in order . Almost every one of ...
... taste and elegance ; but there are several obsti- nate adherents to the old school of fashion , who are attired in such an outlandish style , that it required a great effort to keep my risi ble muscles in order . Almost every one of ...
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... taste is gone , that fame is but a lottery , Drawn by the blue - coat misses of a coterie . TO THE SAME . Don Juan . Edinburgh , February 12 , 1819 . THE " blue stocking gentry " are the female pedants of Scotch society . Instead of ...
... taste is gone , that fame is but a lottery , Drawn by the blue - coat misses of a coterie . TO THE SAME . Don Juan . Edinburgh , February 12 , 1819 . THE " blue stocking gentry " are the female pedants of Scotch society . Instead of ...
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