The Spectator, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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... thought , which many young women of quality have enter- tained , to the hazard of their characters , and the certain misfortune of their lives . The first of the following let- ters ters may best reprefent the faults I would now point ...
... thought , which many young women of quality have enter- tained , to the hazard of their characters , and the certain misfortune of their lives . The first of the following let- ters ters may best reprefent the faults I would now point ...
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... thought you a difcreet perfon , and qualified to manage a family with admirable prudence : the dies to fee what demure and ferious airs wedlock has given you , but she says she shall never forgive your choice of fo gallant a · man as ...
... thought you a difcreet perfon , and qualified to manage a family with admirable prudence : the dies to fee what demure and ferious airs wedlock has given you , but she says she shall never forgive your choice of fo gallant a · man as ...
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... thoughts . These things , dear madam , will be lafting fatisfactions , when the fine ladies , and the coxcombs by whom ... thought on any other way . My mind has ever fince been fo wholly bent on her , that I am much in danger of doing ...
... thoughts . These things , dear madam , will be lafting fatisfactions , when the fine ladies , and the coxcombs by whom ... thought on any other way . My mind has ever fince been fo wholly bent on her , that I am much in danger of doing ...
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... thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his intereft or convenience , or that Providence , in the very frame of his foul , would not fubject him to fuch a paffion as would be useless to the world , and ...
... thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his intereft or convenience , or that Providence , in the very frame of his foul , would not fubject him to fuch a paffion as would be useless to the world , and ...
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... thought it is fill reaching after an empty imaginary good , that has not in it the power to abate or fatisfy it . Moft other things we long for can allay the cravings of their proper fenfe , and for a while fet the appetite at reft ...
... thought it is fill reaching after an empty imaginary good , that has not in it the power to abate or fatisfy it . Moft other things we long for can allay the cravings of their proper fenfe , and for a while fet the appetite at reft ...
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