Conversation - Early works to 1800
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A winter evening's conversation in a club of Jews, Dutcmen [sic], French refugees, and English stock-jobbers, ... By which the whole secret of the late subscription is laid open, ... and the true cause of our agreeing so precipitately to the preliminaries, detected.
Date: 1748- E-books
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A complete collection of genteel and ingenious conversation , according to the most polite mode and method now used at court, and in the Best Companies of England. In three dialogues. By Simon Wagstaff, Esq;.
Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745.Date: 1738- E-books
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The conversation of gentlemen considered in most of the ways , that make their mutual Company Agreeable, or Disagreeable. In six dialogues.
Constable, John 1676-1743.Date: 1749- E-books
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The art of conversation or, the polite entertainer: calculated for the improvement of both sexes, And recommended as a genteel Help in Modern Discourse. Illustrated With several curious Anecdotes on different Subjects. By a nobleman of distinguished abilities.
Nobleman of Distinguished AbilitiesDate: 1757- E-books
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The art of pleasing in conversation Written by the famous Cardinal Richelieu. Translated out of French.
Vaumorière, M. de (Pierre Ortigue), 1610-1693.Date: 1708