Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... and the Porter 317 Rousseau's Hermitage . 320 Satirists of Women . - Chances of Female Happiness 326 Advertisement for a Dedicatee 336 The Miseries of Reality 344 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . WINTER . THE mill - wheel viii CONTENTS .
... and the Porter 317 Rousseau's Hermitage . 320 Satirists of Women . - Chances of Female Happiness 326 Advertisement for a Dedicatee 336 The Miseries of Reality 344 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . WINTER . THE mill - wheel viii CONTENTS .
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... woman , stated to be of respectable family and education , was so deeply affected by the calamity of her coun- try , and her melancholy apprehensions for its future fate , that she became deprived of her senses , put on widows ' weeds ...
... woman , stated to be of respectable family and education , was so deeply affected by the calamity of her coun- try , and her melancholy apprehensions for its future fate , that she became deprived of her senses , put on widows ' weeds ...
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... women of the present age were giddy enough before , without the stimulus of these fantastical gyrations . If a fortune- hunter choose to single out an heiress , and spin round and round with her , like a billiard - ball , merely to get ...
... women of the present age were giddy enough before , without the stimulus of these fantastical gyrations . If a fortune- hunter choose to single out an heiress , and spin round and round with her , like a billiard - ball , merely to get ...
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... women ; archery for men ; leaping , vaulting , or any other harmless recreations ; nor having of May - games , Whitsun - ales , or Morrice - dances ; or setting up of May - poles , or other sports therewith used , so as the same may be ...
... women ; archery for men ; leaping , vaulting , or any other harmless recreations ; nor having of May - games , Whitsun - ales , or Morrice - dances ; or setting up of May - poles , or other sports therewith used , so as the same may be ...
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... woman's apple - stall . If in good circumstances , he orders out his coachman , footman , and horses , to go to chapel , that the world may at once know his wealth and his devoutness ; yet dines upon cold meat , to let God Almighty see ...
... woman's apple - stall . If in good circumstances , he orders out his coachman , footman , and horses , to go to chapel , that the world may at once know his wealth and his devoutness ; yet dines upon cold meat , to let God Almighty see ...
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