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... learning― Multitude authors and readers 153. A visit to Sir John Jolly . 154. On female curiosity - Gaming • · . Unknown . Jenyns · · Moore 155. Inconveniences of false reports of deaths in the newspapers 156. On insensibles VOL . III ...
... learning― Multitude authors and readers 153. A visit to Sir John Jolly . 154. On female curiosity - Gaming • · . Unknown . Jenyns · · Moore 155. Inconveniences of false reports of deaths in the newspapers 156. On insensibles VOL . III ...
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... learning makes him esteemed ; but GOOD - BREEDING alone can make him beloved . I recommend it in a more particular manner to my country - women , as the greatest ornament to such of them as have beauty , and the safest refuge for those ...
... learning makes him esteemed ; but GOOD - BREEDING alone can make him beloved . I recommend it in a more particular manner to my country - women , as the greatest ornament to such of them as have beauty , and the safest refuge for those ...
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... learning ; especially as I assure you , you shall see nothing in it that shall savour at all of that narrow and unsociable spirit , which was heretofore the characteristic of the productions of the college . will No , Mr. Fitz - Adam ...
... learning ; especially as I assure you , you shall see nothing in it that shall savour at all of that narrow and unsociable spirit , which was heretofore the characteristic of the productions of the college . will No , Mr. Fitz - Adam ...
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... learning , which has introduced the levelling principle , with much better success than ever it met with in politics . The old fences have been happily broken down , the trade has been laid open , and the old repositories , or ...
... learning , which has introduced the levelling principle , with much better success than ever it met with in politics . The old fences have been happily broken down , the trade has been laid open , and the old repositories , or ...
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... learning thus carved out for him , at proper seasons and intervals , in quantities that will not over - cloy his stomach , or be too expensive to his pocket ! How greatly prefer- able , both for cheapness and utility , is this method of ...
... learning thus carved out for him , at proper seasons and intervals , in quantities that will not over - cloy his stomach , or be too expensive to his pocket ! How greatly prefer- able , both for cheapness and utility , is this method of ...
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