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Pagina 14
... best way will be to let him fee you are much caft down and afflicted for the ill Opinion he entertains of you , and the Difquietudes he himself fuffers for your Sake . There are many who take a kind of barbarous Pleasure in the Jealoufy ...
... best way will be to let him fee you are much caft down and afflicted for the ill Opinion he entertains of you , and the Difquietudes he himself fuffers for your Sake . There are many who take a kind of barbarous Pleasure in the Jealoufy ...
Pagina 23
... best Grinner in the Country , he ordered the Oaths to be tendered unto him upon his quitting the Table , which the Grinner refufing , he was fet afide as an unqualified Perfon . There were feveral other Grotefque Figures that prefented ...
... best Grinner in the Country , he ordered the Oaths to be tendered unto him upon his quitting the Table , which the Grinner refufing , he was fet afide as an unqualified Perfon . There were feveral other Grotefque Figures that prefented ...
Pagina 31
... best Rule I can lay down for them to avoid the like Calamities for the future , is throughly to confider not only Whether their Companions are weak , but Whether themselves are Wits . B 4 THE THE following Letter comes to me from Exeter ...
... best Rule I can lay down for them to avoid the like Calamities for the future , is throughly to confider not only Whether their Companions are weak , but Whether themselves are Wits . B 4 THE THE following Letter comes to me from Exeter ...
Pagina 33
... best of Wives . It would be worth your Confideration to enter into the Nature of Affection it felf , and tell us , according to your Philofophy , why it is that our Dears fhould do what they will with us , fhall be froward , ill ...
... best of Wives . It would be worth your Confideration to enter into the Nature of Affection it felf , and tell us , according to your Philofophy , why it is that our Dears fhould do what they will with us , fhall be froward , ill ...
Pagina 43
... best ' Humour to receive this , I am answered only , That I expofe my own Reputation and Senfe if I appear jea- lous . I with , good Sir , you would take this into feri- ous Confideration , and admonish Husbands and Wives ' what Terms ...
... best ' Humour to receive this , I am answered only , That I expofe my own Reputation and Senfe if I appear jea- lous . I with , good Sir , you would take this into feri- ous Confideration , and admonish Husbands and Wives ' what Terms ...
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