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" YOU are so little accustomed to receive any marks of respect or esteem from the public, that if, in the following lines, a compliment or expression of applause should escape me, I fear you would consider it as a mockery of your established character,... "
Twelve years' Queen's scholarship questions - Page 30
by Education Ministry of - 1882
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...the Duke of Bedford. My lord, yon are BO little accustomed to receive any marks of respect or e*t£em from the public, that if in the following lines a compliment or expression of an-. 8 la use should escape me. I fear you would consider it as a mockery of your estADfhed character,...
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A Short History of the English Parliament, Volume 1

Andrew Bisset - 1882 - 212 pages
...make you a negative instruction to your successors for ever.'' And he tells the Duke of Bedford, 2 ' You are so little accustomed to receive any marks...character, and perhaps an insult to your understanding • . . . . The highest rank, a splendid fortune, and a name glorious till it was yours, were sufficient...
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A Short History of the English Parliament

Andrew Bisset - 1882 - 208 pages
...make yon a negative instruction to your successors for ever.' 1 And he tells the Duke of Bedford,2 ' You are so little accustomed to receive any marks...character, and perhaps an insult to your understanding. . . . The highest rank, a splendid fortune, and a name glorious till it was yours, were sufficient...
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(The British readers). The first (-sixth) reader, ed. by T. Morrison. The ...

Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 232 pages
...clerk in the War Office between 1763 and 1772, is the man in whose favour the evidence is strongest.] any marks of respect or esteem from the public, that...character, and, perhaps, an insult to your understanding. You have nice feelings, my lord, if we may judge from your resentments. Cautious, therefore, of giving...
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Advanced Text-book of English Composition, in Prose and Verse ...

Walter Scott Dalgleish - English language - 1883 - 156 pages
...expression in (10) is epigrammatic? Exercise 7. JUNTOS. (? FRANCIS, 1740-1818.) A. (1) " My Lord, — You are so little accustomed to receive any marks...consider it as a mockery of your established character, (2) and, perhaps, an insult to your understanding. You have nice feelings, my lord, if we may judge...
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Az Angol irodalom története, Volume 3

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1883 - 516 pages
...gúnynak venné vagy itélőtehetsége ellen intézett bántalomnak. » 59 6s 1769—1772. 59 My lord , you are so little accustomed to receive any marks...following lines a compliment or expression of applause Taine. ITT. 20 «Van valami, írja Grafton herczegnek, az ön jellemében és viseletében, mi nemcsak...
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English Language and Literary Criticism: English prose

James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...following extracts from the twenty-third letter, which is addressed to the Duke of Bedford : MY LORD : You are so little accustomed to receive any marks...the following lines a compliment or expression of applanse should escape me, I fear you would consider it as a mockery of your established character,...
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French Exercises, Adapted to Eve and De Baudiss' French Grammar

Henry Weston Eve - 1884 - 84 pages
...hterself to be persuaded that she would recover the few weeks she had lost (19, 226, 228). 21. My lord, you are so little accustomed to receive any marks...respect or esteem from the public,' that if in the following17 lines a compliment or expression of applause should18 escape me, you would, I fear, consider19...
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History of English Literature: By H.A. Taine, Translated by H. Van ..., Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1885 - 1108 pages
...43, 898. from the public, that if, in the following lines, » compliment or eip.ession of •pplause should escape me, I fear you would consider it as...character, and perhaps an insult to your understanding.' ' He writes to the Duke of Grafton : ' There is something in both your character and conduct which...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 3

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1887 - 446 pages
...are so little aocustomed to receive any marks ot respect or esteem from tlic public, that if in Ihe following lines a compliment or expression of applause...character, and perhaps an insult to your understanding. c etvoire activité, c'est encore d'avoir pris pourprin« cipe premieretuniforme, et,sije puis l'appeler...
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