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What is opposite to the eternal Rules of Reason and good Sense , must be excluded from any Place in the Carriage of a Well - bred Man . I did not , I confess , explain my self enough on this Subject , when I called Dorimant a Clown ...
What is opposite to the eternal Rules of Reason and good Sense , must be excluded from any Place in the Carriage of a Well - bred Man . I did not , I confess , explain my self enough on this Subject , when I called Dorimant a Clown ...
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It is thus with the State of the Mind ; he that governs his Thoughts with the everlasting Rules of Reason and Senfe , must have fomething so inexpressibly Graceful in his Words and Actions , that every Circumstance must become him .
It is thus with the State of the Mind ; he that governs his Thoughts with the everlasting Rules of Reason and Senfe , must have fomething so inexpressibly Graceful in his Words and Actions , that every Circumstance must become him .
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There is a way of Thinking , if a Man can attain to it , by which he may strike somewhat out ofany thing , I can at present observe those Starts of good Sense and Struggles of unimproved Reason in the Conversation of a Clown , with as ...
There is a way of Thinking , if a Man can attain to it , by which he may strike somewhat out ofany thing , I can at present observe those Starts of good Sense and Struggles of unimproved Reason in the Conversation of a Clown , with as ...
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If he had looked on me a little longer , he had certainly described me so particularly , without ever confidering what led him into it , that the whole Company must necessarily have found me out ; for which Reason , remembring the old ...
If he had looked on me a little longer , he had certainly described me so particularly , without ever confidering what led him into it , that the whole Company must necessarily have found me out ; for which Reason , remembring the old ...
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The Greeks thought it improper for Women to interest themfelves in Competitions and Contentions , that for this reason , among others , they forbad them , under Pain of Death , to be present at the Olympick Games , notwithstanding thefe ...
The Greeks thought it improper for Women to interest themfelves in Competitions and Contentions , that for this reason , among others , they forbad them , under Pain of Death , to be present at the Olympick Games , notwithstanding thefe ...
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