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Page 10
As our English women excel thofe of all nations in beauty , they hould endeavour to outshine them in all other accomplishments proper to the sex , and to distinguish themselves as tender mothers , and faithful wives , rather than as ...
As our English women excel thofe of all nations in beauty , they hould endeavour to outshine them in all other accomplishments proper to the sex , and to distinguish themselves as tender mothers , and faithful wives , rather than as ...
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All the faces he drew were very remarkable for their smiles , and a certain smirking air which he bestowed indifferently on every age and degree of either sex . The toujours gai . appeared even in his judges , bishops , and privy ...
All the faces he drew were very remarkable for their smiles , and a certain smirking air which he bestowed indifferently on every age and degree of either sex . The toujours gai . appeared even in his judges , bishops , and privy ...
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I would not however be understood , by any thing I have here faid , to discourage that natural modesty in the sex , which renders a retreat from the first approachesof a lover both fashionable and graceful : All that I intend , is , to ...
I would not however be understood , by any thing I have here faid , to discourage that natural modesty in the sex , which renders a retreat from the first approachesof a lover both fashionable and graceful : All that I intend , is , to ...
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Having thus in part figni• fied to you the esteem and veneration which I have you , I must put you in mind of the catalogue of * books which you have promised to recommend to our • sex ; for I have deferred furnishing my closet with ...
Having thus in part figni• fied to you the esteem and veneration which I have you , I must put you in mind of the catalogue of * books which you have promised to recommend to our • sex ; for I have deferred furnishing my closet with ...
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... the valuable part of the sex will easily pardon me , if from time to time I laugh at those little vanities and follies which appear in the behaviour of some of them , and which are more proper for a ridicule than a serious censure .
... the valuable part of the sex will easily pardon me , if from time to time I laugh at those little vanities and follies which appear in the behaviour of some of them , and which are more proper for a ridicule than a serious censure .
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| Title | The Spectator .. Volume 2 of The Spectator |
| Publisher | Peter Wilson, 1755 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 2 Dec 2020 |
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