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"I can't return from so agreeable an entertainment as yours in the country without acknowledging it. I thank you heartily for the new idea of life you there gave me; it will remain long with me, for it is very strongly impressed upon my imagination. I repeat the memory of it often, and shall value that faculty of the mind now more than ever, for the power it gives me of being entertained in your villa, when absent from it. As you are possessed of all the pleasures of the country, and as I think of a right mind, what can I wish you but health to enjoy them? This I so heartily do, that I should be even glad to hear your good old mother might lose all her present pleasures in her unwearied care of you, by your better health convincing her it is unnecessary.
(From Mr. Digby, Aug. 14, 1723, L140, pp. 192-3)",2013-07-08 17:14:58 UTC,"""I thank you heartily for the new idea of life you there gave me; it will remain long with me, for it is very strongly impressed upon my imagination.""",2013-07-08 17:14:58 UTC,Letter CXI,"",,Impressions,"",Reading in Google Books,21519,7508
"When I come to you, 'tis in order to be with you only: A President of the council, or a star and garter will make no more impression upon my mind, at such a time, than the hearing of a bagpipe, or the sight of a poppet-show. I have said to Greatness sometime ago — Tuas tibi res babetoy egomet curabo meas. The Time is not far off when we shall all be upon the level: and I am resolv'd for my part to anticipate that time, and be upon the level with them now: for he is so, that neither seeks nor wants them. Let them have more Virtue and less Pride: and then I'll court them as much as any body: but till they resolve to distinguish themselves some way else than by their outward Trappings, I am determined (and I think I have a right) to be as proud as they are: tho' I trust in God, my pride is neither of so odious a nature as theirs, nor of so mischievous a consequence.
(From the Bishop of Rochester, April 6, 1722, L137, p. 245)",2013-07-08 17:17:19 UTC,"""A President of the council, or a star and garter will make no more impression upon my mind, at such a time, than the hearing of a bagpipe, or the sight of a poppet-show.""",2013-07-08 17:17:19 UTC,"Letter CXXXVII
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