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... hope to make the figure you have done , among the fashionable part of his fpecies . It is therefore no wonder we fee fuch multitudes of aspiring young men fall fhort of you in all these beau- ties of your character , notwithstanding the ...
... hope to make the figure you have done , among the fashionable part of his fpecies . It is therefore no wonder we fee fuch multitudes of aspiring young men fall fhort of you in all these beau- ties of your character , notwithstanding the ...
Page 27
... hope it will not be im- ' puted to any want of forefight , but to the long dif- ufe of speech . I doubt not by this invention to have all my former customers over again ; for , if I have promifed any of them lovers or hufbands , riches ...
... hope it will not be im- ' puted to any want of forefight , but to the long dif- ufe of speech . I doubt not by this invention to have all my former customers over again ; for , if I have promifed any of them lovers or hufbands , riches ...
Page 51
... hope , you will allow me to represent fome part of a military life , not altogether unne- ceffary to the forming a gentleman . I need not tell B you , that in France , whofe fashions we have been formerly fo fond of , almoft every one ...
... hope , you will allow me to represent fome part of a military life , not altogether unne- ceffary to the forming a gentleman . I need not tell B you , that in France , whofe fashions we have been formerly fo fond of , almoft every one ...
Page 56
... hope this fhort effay will convince my readers , it is not for want of abilities that I avoid state - tracts , and that , if I would apply my mind to it , I might in a little time be as great a maiter of the political scratch as any the ...
... hope this fhort effay will convince my readers , it is not for want of abilities that I avoid state - tracts , and that , if I would apply my mind to it , I might in a little time be as great a maiter of the political scratch as any the ...
Page 73
... hope for in life , when death was thus in a manner de- feated ; and when pain itself would be of fo short a duration , that it would but just serve to enhance the value of pleasure : while I was in these thoughts , I unluckily called to ...
... hope for in life , when death was thus in a manner de- feated ; and when pain itself would be of fo short a duration , that it would but just serve to enhance the value of pleasure : while I was in these thoughts , I unluckily called to ...
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