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Last Sunday afternoon I was highly pleas'd with his company, and gratified and entertain'd with his conversation. —
Letter 34 2009
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Your mother is midling, and is quite pleas'd with Mary's Letter. and yours is quite to the point.
Letter 174 2009
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Relieve for twopence only may be had'Reachd my lodging at night well pleas'd. —
Letter 106 2009
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But I doubt if the latter knows that you have advise from London he will not relish the job. and if Mr Young finds himself discarded after this fresh application to his judgement he will not be pleas'd.
Letter 161 2009
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Sir, this to me was both new and wonderful: and induc'd me rather to communicate the information to you through the medium of the Press than by writing; that it may meet the eye of many, who will be equally struck and pleas'd with the novelty of the idea as myself.
Letter 34 2009
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“We form a kind of system” of these strong impressions of sense and memory, “comprehending whatever we remember to have been present, either to our internal perception or senses; and every particular of this system, joined to the present impressions, we are pleas'd to call a reality” (T, 108).
David Hume Morris, William Edward 2009
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In short, all were pleas'd, and the Marriage was accomplished to every
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Ladies, in this latter Age, have pleas'd themselves with this sort of
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Fortune in the Plantations, whilst she found hers in the wicked Embraces of this young Gentleman; who hired a very handsome House for her, furnished it genteely, and when he pleas'd, there pass'd his Time, making her his Study, Practice and Diversion.
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Son, he seem'd as much pleas'd with his Mother's Choice, as she was at his seeming Reformation; and ingaged her to agree upon a Day to come along with her to make me a Visit.
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