 | John Walker - 1811 - 574 pages
...servant has been a long time writing it. To this letter Mr. Foote replied. To THE DUCHESS OF KINGSTON, MADAM, though I have neither time nor inclination...public correspondence with your grace is too great an honour for tne to decline. I cannot help thinking but it would have been prudent in your grace to have... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 572 pages
...1ong time writing it. To this letter Mr. Foote replied. To THE DUCHESS OF KINGSTON, MADAM, though 1 have neither time nor inclination to answer the illiberal...your agents, yet a public correspondence with your "race is too great an honour for me to decline. I cannot help thinking but it would have been prudent... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...your affectionate servant, SAML. FOOTE. SAMUEL FOOTE TO THE DUCHESS OF KINGSTON. MADAM, [Aogmt, 1775]. THOUGH I have neither time nor inclination to answer...public correspondence with your grace is too great an honour for me to decline. I can't help thinking but it would have been prudent in your grace to have... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 418 pages
...affectionate servant, S AMI,. FOOTE. SAMUEL FOOTE TO THE DUCHESS OF KINGSTON. MADAM, [August, 1775]. THOUGH I have neither time nor inclination to answer...public correspondence with your grace is too great an honour for me to decline. I can't help thinking but it would have been prudent in your grace to have... | |
 | Samuel Foote - 1830 - 426 pages
...inuendo before quoted. After this insinuation, and Foote's sarcastic reply,* no other course lay • Madam, — Though I have neither time nor inclination...public correspondence with your Grace is too great an honour for me to decline. I cannot help thinking that it would have been prudent in your Grace to have... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 492 pages
...taken by the public in his contentions with the Duchess, served as excellent whetstones to his wit. " MADAM, " Though I have neither time nor inclination...public correspondence with your Grace is too great an honour for me to decline. I can't help thinking but it would have been prudent in your Grace to have... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1849 - 528 pages
...merry-andrew's daughter married a Justice Foote, of Truru, in Cornwall. To the Duchess of Kingston, " Madam, — Though I have neither time nor inclination...public correspondence with your grace is too great an honour for me to decline. I can't help thinking but it would have been prudent in your grace to have... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1849 - 516 pages
...merry-andrew's daughter married a Justice Foote, of Truro, in Cornwall. To the Duchess of Kingston, " Madam, — Though I have neither time nor inclination...public correspondence with your grace is too great an honour for me to decline. I can't help thinking but it would have been prudent in your grace to have... | |
 | 1858 - 798 pages
...received this sooner, but the servant has been a long time writing it." " To the DUCHESS of KINGSTON. " MADAM, "Though I have neither time nor inclination...public correspondence with your grace is too great an honour for mo, to decline. I can't help thinking but it would have been prudent in your grace to have... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 pages
...long time writing it. To this Foote wrote the following stinging reply : To the Duchess of Kingston. MADAM, — Though I have neither time nor inclination...public correspondence with your Grace is too great an honour for me to decline. I can't help thinking but that it would have been prudent in your Grace to... | |
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I cannot help thinking that it would have been prudent in your Grace to have answered my letter before dinner, or at least postponed it to the cool hour of the morning: you would then have found that I had voluntarily granted... 
