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" ... and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory letter to the duke, which was answered with great magnanimity, as by a man who accepted his excuse without believing his professions. "
Anecdotes of the Aristocracy: And Episodes in Ancestral Story - Page 402
by Bernard Burke - 1849
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...behind dissimulation, and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had confidence openly ro deny. He wrote, an exculpatory letter to the Duke,...accepted his excuse without believing his professions. He (said, that to have ridiculed his taste, or his buildings, had been an indifferent action in another...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations ..., Volume 10, Issue 4

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1816 - 920 pages
...shelter his temerity behind dissimulation, and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory...Duke, which was answered with great magnanimity, as by man who accepted his excuse without believing his professions. He said, that to have ridiculed his...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...shelter his temerity behind dissimulation, and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory...accepted his excuse without believing his professions. He said, that to have ridiculed his taste,. or his buildings, had been an indifferent action in another...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...shelter his temerity behind dissimulation, and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory...accepted his excuse without believing his professions. He said, that to have ridiculed his taste, or his buildings, had been an indifferent action in another...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...at last reduced to shelter his temerity hebind dissimulation, und endeavour to make that dishelieved which he never had the confidence openly to deny....Duke, which was answered with great magnanimity, as hy a man who accepted his excuse without helieving his professions. He said, that to have ridiculed...
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London, by David Hughson, Volume 6

Edward Pugh - 1809 - 784 pages
...shelier his temerity behind dissimulation, and to endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory...accepted his excuse without believing his professions." The house was built in 1712; and, notwithstanding three successive •hocks, which his fortune received,...
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London;: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British ..., Volume 6

David Hughson - London (England) - 1809 - 820 pages
...make that disbelieved whicli he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory V-tter to the duke, which was answered with great magnanimity,...accepted his excuse without believing his professions." The house was built in 1712; and, notwithstanding three successive shocks, which his fortune received,...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Prior. Congreve. Blackmore ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...shelter his temerity behind dissimulation, and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory...accepted his excuse without believing his professions. He said, that to have ridiculed his taste, or his buildings, had been an indifferent action in another...
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...shelter his temerity behind dissimulation, and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory...accepted his excuse without believing his professions. He said, that to hfve ridiculed his taste, or his buildings, had been an indifferent action in another...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 548 pages
...shelter his temerity behind dissimuulation, and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory...accepted his excuse without believing his professions. He said, that to have ridiculed his taste, or his buildings, had been an indifferent action in another...
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