I know it is not acting in form, but I do not look upon you as I do upon the rest of the world, and by what I do for _you_, you are not to judge my manner of acting with others.

You are brother to a woman I tenderly loved; my protestations of friendship are not like other people's, I never speak but what I mean, and when I say I love, 'tis for ever.

I had that real concern for Mrs.
Wortley, I look with some regard on every one that is related to her.
This and my long acquaintance with you may in some measure excuse what I am now doing.

I am surprized at one of the 'Tatlers' you send me; is it possible to have any sort of esteem for a person one believes capable of having such trifling inclinations?
Mr.Bickerstaff has very wrong notions of our sex.

I can say there are some of us that despise charms of show, and all the pageantry of greatness, perhaps with more ease than any of the philosophers.