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... Pin - Money - Reflexions on that Custom ..... .............................. .. ADDISON . 296. Letters on Greek Mottos - the Use of the Window - soliciting Ad- No. vice - Lampoons -Good Man- ners - Dancing 297. CONTENTS . vii.
... Pin - Money - Reflexions on that Custom ..... .............................. .. ADDISON . 296. Letters on Greek Mottos - the Use of the Window - soliciting Ad- No. vice - Lampoons -Good Man- ners - Dancing 297. CONTENTS . vii.
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... pin - money , which I obliged myself to pay quarterly into the hands of one , who acted as her plenipotentiary in that affair . I have ever since religiously observed my part in this solemn agreement . Now , Sir , so it is , that the ...
... pin - money , which I obliged myself to pay quarterly into the hands of one , who acted as her plenipotentiary in that affair . I have ever since religiously observed my part in this solemn agreement . Now , Sir , so it is , that the ...
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James Ferguson. mentioned pin - money , that it may go towards making a provision for her family . This proposal makes her noble blood swell in her veins , insomuch that finding me a little tardy in my last quarter's payment , she ...
James Ferguson. mentioned pin - money , that it may go towards making a provision for her family . This proposal makes her noble blood swell in her veins , insomuch that finding me a little tardy in my last quarter's payment , she ...
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... pin - money , what a prodigious consumption of pins would he think there was in this island ? A pin a day , ' says our frugal proverb , is a groat a year ; ' so that , according to this calculation , my friend Fribble's wife must every ...
... pin - money , what a prodigious consumption of pins would he think there was in this island ? A pin a day , ' says our frugal proverb , is a groat a year ; ' so that , according to this calculation , my friend Fribble's wife must every ...
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... pin - money , was so enraged at her mercenary tem- per , that he told her in great wrath , ' As much as she thought him her slave , he would shew all the world he did not care a pin for her . ' Upon which he flew out of the room , and ...
... pin - money , was so enraged at her mercenary tem- per , that he told her in great wrath , ' As much as she thought him her slave , he would shew all the world he did not care a pin for her . ' Upon which he flew out of the room , and ...
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