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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Wits: ?Quin, Chesterfield, Johnson, Sblwyn, Foote, WlLKES, ETC. Authorities: ?Boswell's Life Of Johnson, Boswelliana, Walpole's Letters, Jesse's Sei/wyn And His ContemPoraries, Lives Of Quin And Foote, Etc. But One Good Translation. Dryden's translation of Virgil being commended by a right reverend bishop, Lord Chesterfield said, The original is indeed excellent; but everything suffers by tramlation?except a bishop! A Low Estimate. Queen Caroline hinted to Lord Chesterfield her design of shutting up St. James's Park and turning it into a garden, and asked him what he thought the alteration would cost. His reply was, Only three crowns ! (alluding to the title, then officially worn by the English monarch, of King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland.) Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy. I have heard frequent use, said Lord Sandwich, in a debate on the Test Laws, of the words ' orthodoxy' and ' heterodoxy;' but I confess myself at a loss to know precisely what they mean. Orthodoxy, my lord, said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, ? orthodoxy is my doxy, ?heterodoxy is another man's doxy. Patience. When Lord Chesterfield was one day at Newcastle House, the duke happening to be very particularly engaged, the earl was requested to sit down in an anteroom. Garnet upon Job, a book dedicated to the duke, happened to lie in the window; and his Grace, on entering, found the earl so busily engaged in reading that he asked how he liked the commentary. In any other place, replied Chesterfield, I should not think much of it; but there is so much propriety in putting a volume upon patience in the room where every visitor is to wait for your Grace, that here it must be considered as one of the best books in the world. A Change of Air. The celebrated Lady To...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217076418
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217076416
  • Publisher Date: 06 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 104 gr

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