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Letters of the Marquise Du Deffand to the Hon. Horace Walpole, Afterwards Earl of Orford, From the Year 1766 to the Year 1780, Vol. 1 - To Which Are Added Letters of Madame Du Deffand to Voltaire, From the Year 1759 to the Year 1775 (Classic Reprint)

English · Hardback

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Excerpt from Letters of the Marquise Du Deffand to the Hon. Horace Walpole, Afterwards Earl of Orford, From the Year 1766 to the Year 1780, Vol. 1: To Which Are Added Letters of Madame Du Deffand to Voltaire, From the Year 1759 to the Year 1775

It is in such letters alone, that both the writer and the person addressed are seen (if the expression be allowable) unmade-up for the public eye, and that the characters and events mentioned in them are repre sented, not always as they really are, but always as they really appeared to their co temporaries; affording often a curious and useful lesson to posterity, from the very different aspect such characters and events assume, when removed from the temporary circumstances which exalted or abased them.

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Authors Marquise du Deffand
Publisher Forgotten Books
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2018
 
No. of pages 472
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 29 mm
Weight 782 g
Subject Education and learning > German as a second/foreign language

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