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The art with which she managed on this occasion, might have deceived the most knowing in the sex; it is not, therefore, surprizing, that he should be caught in a snare, which, though ruinous as it had like to have been, had in it allurements scarce possible to be withstood at his time of life.
Now there is no doubt but nine-tenths of the audience thought this a good portraiture of the English character, and enjoyed it with all the satisfaction of conscious superiority. The ignorance that prevails with regard to our manners and customs, among a people so near us, is surprizing.
We are a very proud Familey and never show our troubles, though our hearts be torn with anguish. "Think," he said, when we had got away from the band, "think of our being together like this!" "It's not so surprizing, is it? We've got to be together if we are dancing." "Not that. Do you know, I never knew so long a day as this has been. The thought of meeting you er again, and all that."
But Wit is not only the Improvement of a plain Piece by intellectual Enameling; besides this, it animates and warms a cold Sentiment, and makes it glow with Life and Vigor; and this it effects, as is express'd in the last Part of the Definition, by giving it as elegant and surprizing Turn.
G r with his family remains at Aix. This gentleman, who laboured under a most dreadful nervous asthma, has obtained such relief from this climate, that he intends to stay another year in the place: and Mr. A r found surprizing benefit from drinking the waters, for a scorbutical complaint.
I have frequently thought that if he had made out what the French call une catalogue raisonnee of all the people who had passed under his observation, it would have afforded a very rich fund of instruction and entertainment. The suddenness with which his accounts of some of them started out in conversation, was not less pleasing than surprizing.
In prosecuting the exploration, of that great river, they had fallen in with some forts which were built by Sebastian Gabota; and reported many other surprizing and wonderful things which they had seen in that country.
Peronne is chiefly remarkable in history for never having been taken, and for a tower where Louis XI. was confined for a short time, after being outwitted in a manner somewhat surprizing for a Monarch who piqued himself on his talents for intrigue, by Charles le Temeraire, Duke of Burgundy.
My mortal enemy, Pier Francesco Ricci, the duke's steward, was very eager to know how the affair had turned out; so that the two whom I suspected of being the cause of my metal's concreting in the manner above related told me that I was not a man, but rather a downright devil, for I had compassed that which was not in the power of art to effect; with many other surprizing things which would have been too much even for the infernal powers.
It will, therefore, not seem at all surprizing that he was zealous in acknowledging the brilliant merit of his son. 'July 9, 1777. 'For the health of my wife and children I have taken the little country-house at which you visited my uncle, Dr. Boswell , who, having lost his wife, is gone to live with his son.
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