The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford, Volume 7H.G. Bohn, 1861 |
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Adieu Admiral Keppel America Ampthill answer Arlington Street army arrived believe Bishop bootikins Burgoyne called certainly Charles Fox Chatterton COUNTESS OF OSSORY daughter dead dear Lady Ossory dear Sir declared doubt Duchess Duke Earl England expect father fleet France French friends Gazette give glad gone gout Harcourt hear heard honour hope HORACE WALPOLE House King Lady Holland Ladyship late least letter look Lord Chatham Lord North Lord Ossory Lordship Madam Madame du Deffand Ministers morning nephew never night Nuneham obliged one's Opera papers Parliament peace perhaps person politics Pray present reason received Sappho Scots seen sent short SIR HORACE MANN sorry Strawberry Hill suppose sure talk tell thing thought thousand to-day to-morrow told town trust truth week whole WILLIAM COLE WILLIAM MASON wish word write written yesterday York
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Page 120 - Walpole is now content to have it told that it was by his fault. If we look, however, without prejudice on the world, we shall find that men, whose consciousness of their own merit sets them above the compliances of servility, are apt enough in their association with superiors to watch their own dignity with troublesome and punctilious jealousy, and in the fervour of independence to exact that attention which they refuse to pay.