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You remember the story of Terentia, who was first married to Cicero, then to Sallust, and at last in her old age married a young nobleman, who imagined that she must possess some secret which would convey to him eloquence and genius." Burton's Life, ii. 307, 308. To Buttafuoco, p. 48, etc. Corr., vi. 176. Feb. 26, 1770.
Streckeisen, ii. 98, etc. One of Rousseau's chief distresses hitherto arose from the indigence in which Theresa would be placed in case of his death. Rey, the bookseller, gave her an annuity of about £16 a year, and Lord Marischal's gift seems to have been 300 louis, the only money that Rousseau was ever induced to accept from any one in his life. See Streckeisen, ii. 99; Corr., iii. 336.
Just now the insatiable gold fountain-pen from whence our indefatigable Lady Correspondent derived her literary pseudonym, was employed in recording merest gossip, in the absence of the longed-for opportunity for its wielder to prove herself the equal, if not the superior, of Dora Corr. Dora was the woman Lady Hannah admired and envied above all others.
R. H. Lee, Life of A. Lee, ii. 321. Sparks, Corr. Rev. iv. 168. Madison Papers, ii. 623. Madison Papers, 627. The great convention at Philadelphia, after a session of four months, came to the end of its noble labors on the 17th of September, 1787. Washington, who had been not merely its presiding officer but its presiding genius, then hastened back to Mt.
"MUSGRAVE, RUDOLPH VARTREY, editor; b. Lichfield, Sill., Mar. 14, 1856; s. Theodorick Q.M., gov. of Sill. 1805-8, judge of the General Ct., 1808-11, judge Supreme Ct. of Appeals, 1811-50 and pres. Supreme Ct. of Appeals, 1841-50; grad. King's Coll. and U. of Sill. Corr. sec. Lichfield Hist. Soc., and editor Sill. Mag. of Biog. since 1890; dir. Traders Nat. Bank, Sill.; mem.
The same story is referred to in Madame de Vandeul's Mém. de Diderot, p. 61. Conf., ix. 245, 246. Grimm to Madame d'Epinay, ii. 259, 269, 313, 326. Conf., x. 17. Mém., ii. 318. Conf., ix. 322. The publication from the autograph originals sets this at rest. For Shakespeare, see Corr. Lit., iv. 143, etc. D'Epinay, ii. 188. D'Epinay, ii. 150. Also Vandeul's Mém. de Diderot, p. 61. Mém. ii. 128.
Doc. No. 11, p. 471, Thirty-eighth Cong., First Sess. Seward to Dayton, Oct. 23, 1863. Ibid. Dip. Corr., 1864. Adams to Seward, March 24, 1864. Dipl. Corr., 1865, Part III, pp. 356-849. Dipl. Corr., 1864; also Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 11, Thirty-eighth Cong., First Sess. Dipl. Corr., 1865, Part III, pp. 380-385. Dipl. Corr. 1865, Part III. Tucker, p. 104; Dipl. Corr., 1865, Part III. Sen. Ex. Doc.
Three maidens once dwelt in a castle in that part of the Isle of Weeping known as the cantred of Devorgilla, Devorgilla of the Green Hill Slopes; and they were baptized according to druidical rites as Sheela the Scribe, Finola the Festive, and Pearla the Melodious, though by the dwellers in that land they were called the Fair Strangers, or the Children of Corr the Swift-Footed.
Confessions, pt. i. liv. v. Date of 1736. OEuvres, lxxv. 182. Corr. 1762. OEuvres, lxxv. 188. OEuvres, lxvii. 432. Condorcet, 170. The repeated wars between France and England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had involved also their colonies in America and India.
For Rousseau's own description, see his letters to Mdme. de Luze, May 10, 1766. Corr., iv. 326. Burton, 313. It has been stated that Rousseau never paid this; at any rate when he fled, he left between thirty and forty pounds in Mr. Davenport's hands. See Davenport to Hume; Burton, 367. Rousseau's accurate probity in affairs of money is absolutely unimpeachable. Corr. iv. 312. April 9, 1766.
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