 | Elegant epistles - 1812
...comfort to hear that you are one): hers ought to be, to make her happy in a virgin state. I will not say it is happier ; but it is undoubtedly safer than...that, notwithstanding the flattering views I had for yon (as I never intended you a sacrifice to my vanity), I thought I owed you the justice to lay before... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1817
...comfort to hear that you are one) ; hers ought to be, to make her happy in a virgin state. I will not say it is happier ; but it is undoubtedly safer than...persuaded of this truth, that, notwithstanding the nattering views I had for you, (as I never intended you a sacrifice to my vanity,) I thought I owed... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821
...comfort to hear that yon are one) ; hers ought to be, to make her happy in a virgin state. I will not say it is happier ; but it Is undoubtedly safer than...lottery, where there is (at the lowest computation) tea thousand blanks to a prize, it is the most prudent choice not to venture. I have always been so... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, American - 1830
...will not say It a happier, but it is undoubtedly safer than any marriage. In n lottery, when; tlicre e those hints; but if they turn them into conclusions, and pruilent choice not to venture. I have always been S'» thoroughly persuadid of this tnr.h, that, notwithstanding... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851
...comfort to hear that you are one); hers ought to be to make her happy in a virgin state. I will not say it is happier, but it is undoubtedly safer, than...computation) ten thousand blanks to a prize, it is the most prndent choice not to venture. I have always been so thoroughly persuaded of this truth, that, notwithstanding... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 762 pages
...comfort to hear that you are one ;) hers ought to be to make her happy in a virgin state. I will not say it is happier, but it is undoubtedly safer than...been so thoroughly persuaded of this truth, that, notw'thstaTid'me, V\\e I had for you, (as I never intended you a sacrifice to my vanity.) I thought... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863
...comfort to hear that you are one ;) hers ought to be to make her happy in a virgin state. I will not say it is happier, but it is undoubtedly safer than any marriage. In a lottery, where there is fat the lowest computation) ten thousand blanks to a prize, it is the most prudent choice not to venture.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 776 pages
...comfort to hear thai you are one ;) hers ought to be to make her happy in a virgin state. I will not say it is happier, but it is undoubtedly safer than...prudent choice not to venture. I have always been so persuaded of this truth, that, notwithstanding xYkft HB^MBi 638 BYKOM. [GEORGE m. I had for you, (Us... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English prose - 1872 - 534 pages
...comfort to hear that you are one) ; hers ought to be to make her happy in a virgin state. I will not say it is happier, but it is undoubtedly safer, than...(at the lowest computation) ten thousand blanks to one prize, it is the most prudent choice not to venture. I have always been so thoroughly persuaded... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 776 pages
...to be to make her happy in a nrgin state. I will not say it is happier, but it is undoubtedly safei than any marriage. In a lottery, where there is (at the lowest computation) ten thousand blanks to a priz«:, it is the most prudent choice not to venture. I h;ive always been so thoroughly persuaded... | |
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She cannot have too many for that station of life which will probably be her fate. The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife (and I have the comfort to hear that you are one) ; hers ought to be, to make her happy in a virgin state.... 
