Table Talk: Or, Selections from the Ana. Containing Extracts from the Different Collections of Ana, French, English, Italian, and German. With Bibliographical Notices |
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... Cardinal de Retz , he accepted of a situation in the household of that prelate , where he continued to enjoy the sweets of study and retired leisure , with such an admixture of intercourse with the world , and with men of learning , as ...
... Cardinal de Retz , he accepted of a situation in the household of that prelate , where he continued to enjoy the sweets of study and retired leisure , with such an admixture of intercourse with the world , and with men of learning , as ...
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... CARDINAL RICHELIEU . A gentleman was once talking very loudly to the Prince de Guémene against the Cardinal de Richelieu . Speak lower , " said he ; " MENAGIANA . 23.
... CARDINAL RICHELIEU . A gentleman was once talking very loudly to the Prince de Guémene against the Cardinal de Richelieu . Speak lower , " said he ; " MENAGIANA . 23.
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... Cardinal's nieces , ) and who , of course , possessed the liberty of free entry at all times , broke in upon the Cardinal after dinner , while amusing himself with leaping in the great gallery . M. de Grammont , like an able courtier ...
... Cardinal's nieces , ) and who , of course , possessed the liberty of free entry at all times , broke in upon the Cardinal after dinner , while amusing himself with leaping in the great gallery . M. de Grammont , like an able courtier ...
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... wrap it in A similar story is related of Frederick of Prussia , and it is also introduced by the author of La Fausse Clelie into that work , in another and more ludicrous form . a cloth , and send it to the Cardinal de MENAGIANA . 33.
... wrap it in A similar story is related of Frederick of Prussia , and it is also introduced by the author of La Fausse Clelie into that work , in another and more ludicrous form . a cloth , and send it to the Cardinal de MENAGIANA . 33.
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... Cardinal de Richelieu , for he has told me a hundred times that I never had any . " XLIX . CLASSICAL APPLICATION . A person meeting another riding , with his wife behind him , applied to him Horace's line— " Post equitem sedet atra cura ...
... Cardinal de Richelieu , for he has told me a hundred times that I never had any . " XLIX . CLASSICAL APPLICATION . A person meeting another riding , with his wife behind him , applied to him Horace's line— " Post equitem sedet atra cura ...
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