Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Francis Jeffrey, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - Edinburgh review |
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... de Madame du Deffand , avec D'Alembert , Montesquieu , le Président Henault , La Duchesse du Maine , Mesdames de Choiseul , De Staal , & c . & c . · Lettres de Mademoiselle de Lespinasse , écrites depuis l'Année 1773 jusqu'à l'Année ...
... de Madame du Deffand , avec D'Alembert , Montesquieu , le Président Henault , La Duchesse du Maine , Mesdames de Choiseul , De Staal , & c . & c . · Lettres de Mademoiselle de Lespinasse , écrites depuis l'Année 1773 jusqu'à l'Année ...
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... but scarcely at all in Gulliver , or any of his later writings in the same style . Of his talent for reviling , we have already said at least enough , in some of the preceding pages . MADAME DU DEFFAND . 227 ( JAN . 1810. )
... but scarcely at all in Gulliver , or any of his later writings in the same style . Of his talent for reviling , we have already said at least enough , in some of the preceding pages . MADAME DU DEFFAND . 227 ( JAN . 1810. )
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Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey. MADAME DU DEFFAND . 227 ( JAN . 1810. ) Correspondance inédite de MADAME DU DEFFAND , avec D'Alem- bert , Montesquieu , le Président Henault , La Duchesse du Maine , Mesdames de Choiseul , De Staal , & c ...
Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey. MADAME DU DEFFAND . 227 ( JAN . 1810. ) Correspondance inédite de MADAME DU DEFFAND , avec D'Alem- bert , Montesquieu , le Président Henault , La Duchesse du Maine , Mesdames de Choiseul , De Staal , & c ...
Page 228
... Madame du Deffand . The fatigue , however , which she had under- gone in reading the old Marchioness asleep , had irrepar- ably injured her health , which was still more impaired by the agitations of her own inflammable and ambitious ...
... Madame du Deffand . The fatigue , however , which she had under- gone in reading the old Marchioness asleep , had irrepar- ably injured her health , which was still more impaired by the agitations of her own inflammable and ambitious ...
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... Madame du Deffand's correspondence consists of let- ters from Montesquieu , D'Alembert , Henault , D'Argens , Formont , Bernstorff , Scheffer , & c . among the men , and Mesdames de Staal , de Choiseul , & c . among the women . Her own ...
... Madame du Deffand's correspondence consists of let- ters from Montesquieu , D'Alembert , Henault , D'Argens , Formont , Bernstorff , Scheffer , & c . among the men , and Mesdames de Staal , de Choiseul , & c . among the women . Her own ...
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