Humphry Clinker (1771) [ Places ]
… to think and speak favourably of this people, among whom I have met with more kindness, hospitality, and rational entertainment, in a few weeks, than ever I received in any other country during the whole course of my life.—Perhaps, the … to vie with a citizen of London, who has ten times his fortune, must excel him in the expence as well as elegance of his entertainments. Though the villas of the Scotch nobility and gentry have generally an air of grandeur and state, I think …
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