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"Can I ever forget," he wrote Adam Smith, "that it is the very same Species, that wou'd scarce show me common Civilities a very few Years ago at Edinburgh, who now receive me with such applause in Paris?"
John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300 John Paul Rollert 2011
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"Can I ever forget," he wrote Adam Smith, "that it is the very same Species, that wou'd scarce show me common Civilities a very few Years ago at Edinburgh, who now receive me with such applause in Paris?"
John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300 John Paul Rollert 2011
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I was now about the Age of Fifteen, at which Time my Mother thought fit to send me to London, to remain under the Government of my Aunt, my Lady Martial, a vertuous Matron, under whose prudent Conduct I might learn a little of the Town Politeness, its Civilities without its
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Jealousy, and beside the Language of his Country being gross and unpolish'd, not us'd to such little extended Civilities of Speech, he concluded what I said to proceed from an amorous Inclination.
Exilius 2008
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Age, where Men are apt to interpret Things in favour of themselves, and believe Women forwarder than they really are, taking Civilities for
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Words, that it was with the utmost Difficulty we perform'd the Civilities of the Occasion.
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Complements and Civilities being over, Scipiana presented
Exilius 2008
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I was now about the Age of Fifteen, at which Time my Mother thought fit to send me to London, to remain under the Government of my Aunt, my Lady Martial, a vertuous Matron, under whose prudent Conduct I might learn a little of the Town Politeness, its Civilities without its
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Noise as possible, that he might not disturb her; however, he was scarce got ready when she awak'd, to whom he address'd with the usual Civilities of the Morning; after which he enquir'd of her Country, and the Cause of her Distress: To which she reply'd, that her Name was Scipiana,
Exilius 2008
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Age, where Men are apt to interpret Things in favour of themselves, and believe Women forwarder than they really are, taking Civilities for
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