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" I never saw a man in company with his superiors in station or information more perfectly free from either the reality or the affectation of embarrassment. I was told, but did not observe it, that his address to females was extremely deferential, and always... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 297
1828
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Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications

Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pages
...saw a man in company with his superiors in station and information, more perfectly free from either the reality or the affectation of embarrassment. I...humorous, which engaged their attention particularly. I haveheardthe lateDuchess of Gordon remark this.—I do not know anything I can add to these recollections...
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Life of Robert Burns

John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1828 - 324 pages
...saw a man in company with his superiors in station and information, more perfectly free from either the reality or the affectation of embarrassment. I...late Duchess of Gordon remark this. — I do not know anything I can add to these recollections of forty years since."— Darkly as the career of Burns was...
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Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, Volume 12

William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1828 - 882 pages
...a man in company with his superiors in station and information, more perfectly free from either thu reality or the affectation of embarrassment. I was...deferential, and always with a turn either to the pathetic or humurous, which engaged their attention particularly. I have heard the late Duchess of Qordon remark...
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The Athenaeum, Volume 2

1828 - 268 pages
...saw a man in company with his superiors in station and information, more perfectly free from either the reality or the affectation of embarrassment. I...females was extremely deferential, and always with H turn either to the pathetic or humourous, which engaged their attention particularly. I have heard...
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Time's Telescope

Almanacs, English - 1830 - 472 pages
...saw a man in company with his superiors in station and information, more perfectly free from either the reality or the affectation of embarrassment. I...particularly. I have heard the late Duchess of Gordon remark this.—I do not know anything I can add to these recollections of forty years since."—Lockhart's...
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Life of Robert Burns

John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...saw a man in company with his superiors in station and information, more perfectly free from either the reality or the affectation of embarrassment. I...add to these recollections of forty years since." Darkly as the career of Burns was destined to terminate, there can be no doubt that he made his first...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 2

1836 - 802 pages
...dress corresponded with his manner. He was like a farmer, dressed in his Acs/, to dine with the laird. I was told, but did not observe it, that his address to Témales was extremely deferential, and always with a turn to the pathetic or humorous, which eniilged...
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The Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Life

Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...saw a man in company with hie superiors in station and information, more perfectly free from either the reality or the affectation of embarrassment. I...add to these recollections of forty years since." — Collins, Gray, Goldsmith, had successively disappeared : — Dr. Johnson liad belied the rich promise...
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The Romance of Biography: Or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets ...

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women - 1837 - 394 pages
...dark cast, which glowed, (I say, literally, glowed) when he spoke with feeling and interest ;" — " his address to females was extremely deferential,...have heard the late Duchess of Gordon remark this ;"* — and Allan Cunningham, speaking also from recollection, says, " he had a very manly countenance,...
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The Romance of Biography: Or, Memoirs of Women Loved and ..., Volume 2

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1837 - 382 pages
...a dark cast, which glowed, (I say, literally, glowed) when he spoke with feeling and interest;"—" his address to females was extremely deferential,...particularly. I have heard the late Duchess of Gordon remark this;"*—and Allan Cunningham, speaking also from recollection, says, " he had a very manly countenance,...
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