great truth and esteem, your most faithful, humble.html">humble servant,
CHESTERFIELD.
opinion, they are both worth; without the former the latter is a burden;
drinking these waters, and by bathing, for my old stiff, rheumatic limbs;
but he will get triumphantly out of them, by dint of strength and
humble servant,
CHESTERFIELD.
of mine to Mrs. du Bouchet, and see no reason yet to retract that
authorized. I had not then the pleasure of your acquaintance: I had seen
deviate, as you have done, from other widows, so much as to put perpetual
a vulgarism) one swallow makes no summer: five righteous were formerly
four.html">four more such righteous widows as yourself, I shall entertain my former
the same time keep so cool a diet that I do not find the least symptom of
in consequence of having drank these waters; for I have had it but four
to minutia, and my sister delights in them.
Charles will be a scholar, if you please; but our little Philip, without
what. I am/am.html">am/am.html">am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country,
words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and
in my opinion consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some
closet amusement.
You are, by this time, certainly tired with this long letter, which I
bad one; he says, that water-drinkers can write nothing good: so I am,
LETTER CCCXVII
BATH, October 9, 1770.
MADAM: I am extremely obliged to you for the kind part which you take in
other body can be; but as to the former, I confess care and anxiety, for
at least of an insect. How far these waters will restore me to that,
.
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