"Their turn of expression is a dress that hangs so gracesully on gay ideas, that you are apt to suppose that wit, a quality parsimoniously distributed in other countries, is in France as common as the gift of speech."
Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790
Seven entries in ESTC (1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1796).<br>
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See Helen Maria Williams, <u>Letters Written in France, In the Summer of 1790, To a Friend in England; Containing Various Anecdotes Relative to the French Revolution; and Memoirs of Mons. and Madame De F----.</u> (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1790). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T91663">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3305215385&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text drawn from fourth edition of 1794 &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=pf5HiMDsMoUC">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;.<br>
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Reading <u>Letters Written in France</u>, eds. Neil Fraistat and Susan S. Lanser (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview: 2001).