On Conversation (1790) [ Practices ]
… Happy are a people, so fond of talking as the French, in possessing a language modelled to all the charming purposes of conversation. Then turn of expression is a dress that hangs so gracefully on gay ideas, that you are apt to suppose that … Happy are a people, so fond of talking as the French, in possessing a language modelled to all the charming purposes of conversation." … France … Conversation … Text: Helen Maria Williams , Letters on the French Revolution, Written in France, in the summer of …
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