A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from 1741 to 1770: To which are Added, Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Vesey, Between 1763 and 1787, Published from the Original Manuscripts in the Possession of the Rev. Montagu Pennington, M.a, Volume 1Rivington, 1809 |
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... pleasure . She excelled much more in drawing , and painting in water colours , in which she shewed the taste and the execution of an artist , especially in land- scapes , and in painting flowers from nature . In this study she took ...
... pleasure . She excelled much more in drawing , and painting in water colours , in which she shewed the taste and the execution of an artist , especially in land- scapes , and in painting flowers from nature . In this study she took ...
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... pleasure . Later in life certainly her continual ill health , and the duty which she owed to the society in which her situation in the world placed her , prevented her from devoting so much time to mental improvement as she wished to do ...
... pleasure . Later in life certainly her continual ill health , and the duty which she owed to the society in which her situation in the world placed her , prevented her from devoting so much time to mental improvement as she wished to do ...
Page x
... pleasure in them . She was a mistress of French and Italian , and had some knowledge of Latin ; and late in life she taught herself German , with a view at first of merely reading the " Death of Abel " in the original . An education ...
... pleasure in them . She was a mistress of French and Italian , and had some knowledge of Latin ; and late in life she taught herself German , with a view at first of merely reading the " Death of Abel " in the original . An education ...
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... pleasure , if you can , of knowing she had no objection to the paper . You will see her to - morrow ( a happiness I envy you much more than all your possessions in the skies . ) Pray make her a thousand compliments and apolo- gies for ...
... pleasure , if you can , of knowing she had no objection to the paper . You will see her to - morrow ( a happiness I envy you much more than all your possessions in the skies . ) Pray make her a thousand compliments and apolo- gies for ...
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... pleasure , I will give her leave to imagine that I have been racking my brains for an answer ever since I received it , and then I need make no further excuse for not ac- knowledging the favor sooner . This really ought to have been the ...
... pleasure , I will give her leave to imagine that I have been racking my brains for an answer ever since I received it , and then I need make no further excuse for not ac- knowledging the favor sooner . This really ought to have been the ...
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