The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... virtue , and to be fufceptible of either , were there proper pains taken with her . Had her journal been filled with galantries , or fuch occurrences as had fhewn her wholly divefted of her natural innocence , not- withstanding it might ...
... virtue , and to be fufceptible of either , were there proper pains taken with her . Had her journal been filled with galantries , or fuch occurrences as had fhewn her wholly divefted of her natural innocence , not- withstanding it might ...
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... virtues of it fooner ; but it was too late to com- plain , and I knew what he had done was out of good . will . Sir RoGER told me farther , that he looked upon it to be very good for a man whilst he staid in town , to keep off infection ...
... virtues of it fooner ; but it was too late to com- plain , and I knew what he had done was out of good . will . Sir RoGER told me farther , that he looked upon it to be very good for a man whilst he staid in town , to keep off infection ...
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... virtue . It would be a worthy work to fhew ⚫ what great charities are to be done without expence , and how many ... virtues . I repeat to you , Sir , my request to print this , in return for all the evil an helpless orphan fhall ever ...
... virtue . It would be a worthy work to fhew ⚫ what great charities are to be done without expence , and how many ... virtues . I repeat to you , Sir , my request to print this , in return for all the evil an helpless orphan fhall ever ...
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... virtue , which ought to be our firft and principal care , was more ufually acquired in the former . I intend therefore , in this letter , to offer at me- thods , by which I conceive boys might be made to improve in virtue , as they ...
... virtue , which ought to be our firft and principal care , was more ufually acquired in the former . I intend therefore , in this letter , to offer at me- thods , by which I conceive boys might be made to improve in virtue , as they ...
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... virtue , or give him an averfion to any par ticular vice . If , fays Horace , my father advised me to live within bounds , and be contented with the fortune he fhould leave me ; Do you not fee ( fays he ) the mi- ferable condition of ...
... virtue , or give him an averfion to any par ticular vice . If , fays Horace , my father advised me to live within bounds , and be contented with the fortune he fhould leave me ; Do you not fee ( fays he ) the mi- ferable condition of ...
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