 | 1803 - 400 pages
...road, they always spend at the next ale-house, and are stilt as beggarly as ever. Her history, righdy considered, would be more instructive to young women than any sermon I know. They may set there what mortifications and variety of misery are the unavoidable consequences of gallantry.... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...of being generous, because whatever they get on the road, they always spend at the next ale-house, and are still as beggarly as ever. ....Her history,...creature that would not prefer the life of the strictest carmélite to the round of hurry and misfortune she has gone through. Her stile is clear and concise,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1804 - 620 pages
...road, they always spend at the next ale-house, and are still as beggarly as ever. Her history, righdy considered, would be more instructive to young women than any sermon I know. They may see diere what mortifications and variety of misery are the unavoidable consequences of gallantry'. I think... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1817 - 374 pages
...of being generous, because, whatever they get on the road, they always spend at the next ale-house, and are still as beggarly as ever. Her history, rightly...not prefer the life of the strictest Carmelite to the round of hurry and misfortune she has gone through. Her style is clear and concise, with some strokes... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 346 pages
...of being generous, becanse, whatever they get on the road, they always spend at the next ale-house, and are still as beggarly as ever. Her history, rightly...misery are the unavoidable consequences of gallantry. 1 think there is no rational creature that would not prefer the life of the strictest Carmelite to... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 386 pages
...that of being generous, because whatever they get on the road, they always spend at the next alehouse, and are still as beggarly as ever. Her history, rightly...not prefer the life of the strictest Carmelite to the round of hurry and misfortune she has gone through. Her style is clear and concise, with some strokes... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 460 pages
...of being generous, because whatever they get on the road, they always spend at the next ale-house, and are still as beggarly as ever. Her history, rightly...misery are the unavoidable consequences of gallantry. 1 think there is no rational creature that would not prefer the life of the strictest Carmelite to... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1876 - 416 pages
...that of being generous, because whatever they get on the road they always spend at the next ale-house, and are still as beggarly as ever. Her history, rightly...not prefer the life of the strictest Carmelite to the round of hurry and misfortune she has gone through. Her style is clear and concise, with some strokes... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Women - 1878 - 422 pages
...rightly considered, would be more instructive to young women than any sermon I know. They may see then what mortifications and variety of misery are the...not prefer the life of the strictest Carmelite to the round of hurry and misfortune she has gone through. Her style is clear and concise, with some strokes... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Women - 1878 - 422 pages
...of being generous, because whatever they get on the road, they always spend at the next ale-house, and are still as beggarly as ever. Her history, rightly...to young women than any sermon I know. They may see then what mortifications and variety of misery are the unavoidable consequences of gallantry. I think... | |
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I am apt to believe she really thinks so herself, as many highwaymen, after having no possibility of retrieving the character of honesty, please themselves with that of being generous, because whatever they get on the road, they always spend at the next... 
