To make our story shorter than the miniature groom's, he learnt that his own property in himself was in danger; and that, if the patriot's definition of liberty be true —"it is like the air we breathe, without it we die"—his life was near its termination. A writ was issued against him; and, thanks to a douceur to his valet, two professional gentlemen, as he left his toilet, would deprive his friends at the Clarendon of his company.


Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

To make our story shorter than the miniature groom's, he learnt that his own property in himself was in danger; and that, if the patriot's definition ...

To make our story shorter than the miniature groom's, he learnt that his own property in himself was in danger; and that, if the patriot's definition ...

To make our story shorter than the miniature groom's, he learnt that his own property in himself was in danger; and that, if the patriot's definition ...

To make our story shorter than the miniature groom's, he learnt that his own property in himself was in danger; and that, if the patriot's definition ...