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• {78} "_Je ne sçai pas_, it is de will of de Grand Monarch." —  A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812
• Which makes us poor actors look _je ne sçai quoy_. —  The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1
• And, lastly, do you convince the World, (what is not in my Power to do) that from the Heart alone you have learn'd that _Je ne sçai quoy_, that pleasing Charm, that so subtily passes from Vein to Vein, and makes its way to the very Soul. —  Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English
• Greek, with all his plenteousness of fancy, and all the wealth of his generous language, yet vainly struggling to describe the ineffable spell which the Parisians dispose of in their own smart way by a summary “Je ne sçai quoi.” —  Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
• I am very good natured myself; but it is, perhaps, because, though a pretty woman, I am more agreable than handsome, and have an infinity of the _je ne sçai quoi_. —  The History of Emily Montague

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