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The Abbé reply’d very sedately, I am chastising Insolence.
From
The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II
Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From
Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland,
England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not
Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but
the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several
Courts.
by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von
