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Pagina 2
... equally fatal to me , my case is very different from any of those I have mentioned : I shall , therefore , take the liberty to give an account of myself , from which you and your readers will be best able to judge , whether making what ...
... equally fatal to me , my case is very different from any of those I have mentioned : I shall , therefore , take the liberty to give an account of myself , from which you and your readers will be best able to judge , whether making what ...
Pagina 4
... equally sincere and warm in their compliments ; but , though I was pleased with their attachment , I could not help being disgusted with the blunt plainness of their manners . Their conversation usually turned on subjects in which I ...
... equally sincere and warm in their compliments ; but , though I was pleased with their attachment , I could not help being disgusted with the blunt plainness of their manners . Their conversation usually turned on subjects in which I ...
Pagina 7
... that fashionable distinction consists in indulgence in low pleasures and gross amusements , you have drawn conclusions equally unfavourable and unjust . I know s from experience , that nowhere are to be found men * ° 57 . MIRROR . 7.
... that fashionable distinction consists in indulgence in low pleasures and gross amusements , you have drawn conclusions equally unfavourable and unjust . I know s from experience , that nowhere are to be found men * ° 57 . MIRROR . 7.
Pagina 12
... equally happy in themselves , and beloved by all around them . Thus lias Horatio , the gentleness of whose mind is equal to the strength of his understanding , by a prudent as well as delicate complacency , gradually effected that ...
... equally happy in themselves , and beloved by all around them . Thus lias Horatio , the gentleness of whose mind is equal to the strength of his understanding , by a prudent as well as delicate complacency , gradually effected that ...
Pagina 13
... equally ungenerous and imprudent . They would , I imagine , shew that superiority much more effectually , in endeavouring to imitate the amiable gentleness of the female character , and to acquire , from a sense of its propriety , a ...
... equally ungenerous and imprudent . They would , I imagine , shew that superiority much more effectually , in endeavouring to imitate the amiable gentleness of the female character , and to acquire , from a sense of its propriety , a ...
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