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Page 16
HEN I consider the false impresions which are received by the generality of the
world , I am troubled at none more than a certain levity of thought , which many
young women of quality have entertained , to the hazard of their characters , and
...
HEN I consider the false impresions which are received by the generality of the
world , I am troubled at none more than a certain levity of thought , which many
young women of quality have entertained , to the hazard of their characters , and
...
Page 18
You make already the entertain• ment at Mrs. Modish's tea - table ; she says , she
always thought you a discreet person , and qualified to manage • a family with
admirable prudence : The dies to see what • demure and serious airs wedlock
has ...
You make already the entertain• ment at Mrs. Modish's tea - table ; she says , she
always thought you a discreet person , and qualified to manage • a family with
admirable prudence : The dies to see what • demure and serious airs wedlock
has ...
Page 19
... many sober happy hours when even I am • shut out , and my dear master is
entertained only with his own thoughts . ... a one , and by what I can learn she
has a character of great modesty , so that there is nothing to be thought other way
.
... many sober happy hours when even I am • shut out , and my dear master is
entertained only with his own thoughts . ... a one , and by what I can learn she
has a character of great modesty , so that there is nothing to be thought other way
.
Page 21
... that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him despair of coming at
fame , or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which
does not more immediately relate to his interest or convenience , or that
Providence ...
... that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him despair of coming at
fame , or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which
does not more immediately relate to his interest or convenience , or that
Providence ...
Page 30
What actions can express the intire purity of thought which refines and fanctifies a
virtuous man ? That secret rest and contentedness of mind , which gives him a
perfect enjoyment of his present condition ? that inward pleasure and ...
What actions can express the intire purity of thought which refines and fanctifies a
virtuous man ? That secret rest and contentedness of mind , which gives him a
perfect enjoyment of his present condition ? that inward pleasure and ...
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