The Lady's Magazine, Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, Part 1Robinson and Roberts, 1794 - English literature |
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... Virtue . To our CORRESPONDENT S. WE are much obliged to Sophia Fashion for her hints ; -fhe will find they shall be attended to . The Effay of X. Y. is too long , and the annexed tale not fufficiently . interefting . Fidelio is not ...
... Virtue . To our CORRESPONDENT S. WE are much obliged to Sophia Fashion for her hints ; -fhe will find they shall be attended to . The Effay of X. Y. is too long , and the annexed tale not fufficiently . interefting . Fidelio is not ...
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... virtue , and lefs afraid of fin than fhame ; from which he concluded , that if he could procure access to her , and at the fame time , baffle fuf- picion , his point was as good as gained . ing her confeffor . The good man , charmed ...
... virtue , and lefs afraid of fin than fhame ; from which he concluded , that if he could procure access to her , and at the fame time , baffle fuf- picion , his point was as good as gained . ing her confeffor . The good man , charmed ...
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... virtue , which ought to be cherished in the breaft of the fubject , independent of the good qualities , and in fpite of the bad qualities of the fovereign ; and they how far their countrymen furpaffed were vain to point out to ftrangers ...
... virtue , which ought to be cherished in the breaft of the fubject , independent of the good qualities , and in fpite of the bad qualities of the fovereign ; and they how far their countrymen furpaffed were vain to point out to ftrangers ...
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... virtue as highly eftions , but not one of their encroach teemed in the imperial palace as in the pooreft cottage . It is in confe- quence of that , the middling clafs of people are contented with their little pittance , and that the ...
... virtue as highly eftions , but not one of their encroach teemed in the imperial palace as in the pooreft cottage . It is in confe- quence of that , the middling clafs of people are contented with their little pittance , and that the ...
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... virtue , decry cowardice , and difcountenance vice . Among the Romans , we cannot fufficiently admire Virgil , the prince of poets ; whofe writings contain every thing that is great and manly . His fentiments are fublime , his fimi ...
... virtue , decry cowardice , and difcountenance vice . Among the Romans , we cannot fufficiently admire Virgil , the prince of poets ; whofe writings contain every thing that is great and manly . His fentiments are fublime , his fimi ...
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Page 263 - ... puppies. I believe but few of a brood live to the years of full growth and magnitude, as the old feed on the young as long as they can make prey of them. The alligator, when full grown, is a very large and terrible creature, and of prodigious strength, activity, and swiftness in the water.
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Page 284 - The gore congeal'd was clotter'd in his hair: With eyes half clos'd and gaping mouth he lay, And grim, as when he breath'd his sullen soul away.
Page 29 - ... of being pink-eyed. In other respects their eyes are dark-brown, or rather black, and the eyelids form in the great angle of the eye a deep furrow, which makes the Japanese look as if they were sharp-sighted and discriminates them from other nations. The eyebrows are also placed somewhat higher.
Page 433 - So much for the first precept. II. Bring thy children up in learning and obedience, yet without outward austerity. Praise them openly, reprehend them secretly. Give them good countenance, and convenient maintenance, according to thy ability...
Page 433 - Beware thou spend not above three of four parts of thy revenues ; nor above a third part of that in thy house. For the other two parts will do no more than defray thy extraordinaries, which always surmount the ordinary by much ; otherwise thou shalt live like a rich beggar, in continual want.
Page 263 - ... ascending from his nostrils like smoke. At other times, when swollen to an extent ready to burst, his head and tail lifted up, he spins or twirls round on the surface of the water.