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A64778 The art of pleasing in conversation written by the famous Abbott Richlieu ; translated out of French.; Art de plaire dans la conversation Vaumorière, M. de (Pierre Ortigue), 1610-1693. 1691 (1691) Wing V161A; ESTC R29410 102,997 386

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34._o instruction_n for_o a_o young_a nobleman_n 35._o five_o love-letter_n from_o a_o nun_n to_o a_o cavalier_n 36._o five_o love-letter_n from_o the_o cavalier_n in_o answer_n to_o the_o nun_n 37._o religio_fw-la laici_fw-la in_o a_o letter_n to_o mr._n dryden_n 38._o count_n gabalis_n 39_o the_o chaste_a seraglion_n 40._o rule_n of_o civility_n 41._o the_o extravagant_a poet._n 42._o new_a disorder_n of_o love_n 43._o ottoman_a gallantry_n or_o the_o life_n of_o the_o bassa_n of_o buda_n 44._o revive_v fugitive_n 45._o tamburlaine_n the_o great_a 46._o court_n secret_n in_o two_o volume_n 47._o the_o duke_n of_o mazarine_n memoir_n 48._o gallantry_n a_o la_fw-fr mode_n or_o woman_n in_o their_o proper_a colour_n 49._o fortune-telling_n card_n finis_fw-la