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Page 13
... receive from it no manner of benefit ; nay , one who died several years ago , raises a fecret fondness and benevolence for him in our minds , when we read his story : Nay , what is still more , one who has been the enemy of our country ...
... receive from it no manner of benefit ; nay , one who died several years ago , raises a fecret fondness and benevolence for him in our minds , when we read his story : Nay , what is still more , one who has been the enemy of our country ...
Page 19
... 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 epiftolary lovers , reads over the accounts of her conquefts ...
... 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 epiftolary lovers , reads over the accounts of her conquefts ...
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... receive him with joy . What is faid of the confequences of domeftic dif- union to fons , is equally to be applied to daughters . Indeed , as the mifconduct of daughters is more fatal to family peace , though perhaps not more heinous in ...
... receive him with joy . What is faid of the confequences of domeftic dif- union to fons , is equally to be applied to daughters . Indeed , as the mifconduct of daughters is more fatal to family peace , though perhaps not more heinous in ...
Page 28
... on the rocks of Pleasure . Many appeared to have great confidence in their skill , and fame , indeed , were preferved by it from finking , who had received only a Gingle blow ; but I remarked that few veffels lafted fingle ( 28 )
... on the rocks of Pleasure . Many appeared to have great confidence in their skill , and fame , indeed , were preferved by it from finking , who had received only a Gingle blow ; but I remarked that few veffels lafted fingle ( 28 )
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... receive any direction which the current of fashion may chance to give you ; what can you expect to follow from fuch beginnings ? While fo many around you are undergoing the fad confequences of a like indifcretion , for what reafon fhall ...
... receive any direction which the current of fashion may chance to give you ; what can you expect to follow from fuch beginnings ? While fo many around you are undergoing the fad confequences of a like indifcretion , for what reafon fhall ...
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