By David Brewster
This ancient booklet can have a variety of typos and lacking textual content. dealers can frequently obtain a unfastened scanned replica of the unique ebook (without typos) from the writer. now not listed. no longer illustrated. 1855 version. Excerpt: ...all the loved ones items and furniture;" and, to let her to maintain the home and backyard in strong order, he bequeathed his manor of Apscourt, in Surrey. "These presents and legacies," he provides, " I depart to her as a token of the honest love, affection, and esteem i've got lengthy had for her individual, and as a small recompense for the excitement and happiness i've got had in her conversation." He fees additionally his executor to "transfer to her an annuity of 2 hundred kilos every year, bought in Sir Isaac Newton's identify, and which he (Lord Halifax) held in belief for her." Conduct's MSS. Born 1679, married August 26, 1717, died twentieth January 1739. 'The phrases love and affection had now not, in Halifax's day, an identical which means which they've got now. speedy, for instance, writes to Stella that he "loves Mrs. Barton hetter than anyone here." talking of the Duke of Argyle, he says, " i admire that Duke mightily. girl Mountjoy is a bit physique i admire very well." talking of the images of woman Orkney, Lord Bolinghroke, and woman Masham, he can pay, "I shall have the photographs of these i actually love here." In like demeanour, Pope writes to H. Cromwell, "I could be joyful to inform the entire international that i've got an severe affection and esteem for yon." The Earl of Shaftesbury. See his Letters to Robert Molesworth, Esq. Edit. 1750, lett. iii. pp. 70 seventy two. while the contents of it will grew to become recognized after the loss of life of Halifax, pass over Barton didn't break out the censure of the area, although she used to be looked by way of all who knew her as a lady of strict honour and advantage. in the course of his lordship's existence, and while a common customer on the condo of Newton, his affection for omit Barton, and his relish her society, by no means once...
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