… philosophy, and politics. John Craufurd, Gilbert Elliot, James Macdonald, Lord Robert Darcy, Lord Shelburne, Lord Bath, Charles James Fox, Charles Fitz Roy, David Hume, Edward Gibbon, and John Taaffe figured among her distinguished …
… brimming with Sternean overtones: 13 . Philip Thicknesse, A Year's Journey Through France, and Part of Spain , 2 vols. (Bath: Cruttwell, 1777), vol. 1, p. 9-10. I was full of Sterne and this was Sterne's Dessein. I desired eagerly to …