 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...sense, expressed in the most plain, intelligible, and elegant manner that you are capable of. If in a familiar epistle you should be playful and jocular,...that there be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your brains ; and those whose brains are a compound... | |
 | Cuthbert Collingwood Baron Collingwood, George Lewes Newnham Collingwood - 1828 - 440 pages
...sense, expressed in the most plain, intelligible, and elegant manner that you are capable of. If in a familiar epistle you should be playful and jocular,...that there be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your brains ; and those whose brains are a compound... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pages
...sense, expressed in the most plain, intelligible, and elegant manner that you are capable of. If in a familiar epistle you should be playful and jocular,...that there be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your brains ; and those whose brains are a compound... | |
 | 1828 - 598 pages
...sense, expressed in the most plain, intelligible, and elegant mariner that you are capable of. If in a familiar epistle you should be playful and jocular,...even the words of which it is composed, that there be be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your... | |
 | Cuthbert Collingwood Baron Collingwood, George Lewis Newnham Collingwood - 1828 - 610 pages
...ful and jocular, guard carefully that your wit be i rp, so as to give pain to any person ; and b« i write a sentence, examine it, even the words of which...that there be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your brains ; and those whose brains are a compound... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...sense, expressed in the most plain, intelligible, and elegant manner that you are capable of. If in a familiar epistle you should be playful and jocular, guard carefully that your wit be not shaq>, so as to give pain to any person ; and before you write a sentence, examine it, even the words... | |
 | 1829 - 598 pages
...sense, expressed in the most plain, intelligible, and elegant manner that you are capable of. If in a familiar epistle you should be playful and jocular,...that there be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your brains ; and those whose" brains are a compound... | |
 | Cuthbert Collingwood Baron Collingwood - 1829 - 434 pages
...sense, expressed in the most plain, intelligible, and elegant manner that you are capable of. If in a familiar epistle you should be playful and jocular,...wit be not sharp, so as to give pain to any person j and before you write a sentence, examine it, even the words of which it is composed, that there be... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 pages
...sense, expressed in the most plain, intelligible and elegant manner of which you are capable. If, in a familiar epistle, you should be playful and jocular,...that there be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your brains ; and those whose brains are a compound... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 616 pages
...sense, expressed in the most plain, intelligible, and elegant manner that you are capable of. ~ If in a familiar epistle you should be playful and jocular,...that there be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your brains ; and those whose brains are a compound... | |
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When you write a letter, give it your greatest care, that it may be as perfect in all its parts as you can make it. Let the subject be sense, expressed in the most plain, intelligible, and elegant manner that you are capable of. If in a familiar epistle... 
