Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… of gentility, had experienced the difference between politeness and presumption: ‘ Mr Barry called – & talked Morality & Philosophy with my Mother – but told her, when she made use of the latter word, He did not know he had been talking Philosophy – ‘But, for my part, added he, ‘I think the name is all that alarms in Moral Philosophy – for I don’t find that I know more of the matter than Miss Burney – or Miss Charlotte – or any other Lady ’ – …
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