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... because they are violent , they are irresistible . The " fame Nature which gave you paffions , gave you alfo ❝reafon and a love of order . Religion , added to the light of Nature and the experience of mankind , has concurred in ...
... because they are violent , they are irresistible . The " fame Nature which gave you paffions , gave you alfo ❝reafon and a love of order . Religion , added to the light of Nature and the experience of mankind , has concurred in ...
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... because of her attendance on him , when he is too ill to receive company , to whom fhe may make an appearance . What adds to the entertainment of the good old man , is , that Fidelia , where merit and fortune cannot be overlooked by ...
... because of her attendance on him , when he is too ill to receive company , to whom fhe may make an appearance . What adds to the entertainment of the good old man , is , that Fidelia , where merit and fortune cannot be overlooked by ...
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... because they are like toads . Yet , amidst all the mis- fortunes of these unfriended creatures , ' tis fome hap- piness that we have not yet taken a fancy to eat them : For fhould our countrymen refine upon the French never fo little ...
... because they are like toads . Yet , amidst all the mis- fortunes of these unfriended creatures , ' tis fome hap- piness that we have not yet taken a fancy to eat them : For fhould our countrymen refine upon the French never fo little ...
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... because he outfhines you in equipage and fhow ? Lift up your brow with a noble confidence , and fay to yourself , " I have not these things , it is true ; but it is because I have not fought , becaufe I have not defired them ; it is because ...
... because he outfhines you in equipage and fhow ? Lift up your brow with a noble confidence , and fay to yourself , " I have not these things , it is true ; but it is because I have not fought , becaufe I have not defired them ; it is because ...
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... because it is given and preferved to them on that con- dition ; but this fhould always be performed with all the tenderness and compaffion which fo difagreeable an office will permit ; and no circumftances ought to be omitted , which ...
... because it is given and preferved to them on that con- dition ; but this fhould always be performed with all the tenderness and compaffion which fo difagreeable an office will permit ; and no circumftances ought to be omitted , which ...
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