Instructions for the Use of a Young Lady of Quality: Or, The Idea of a Woman of Merit |
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... Advantages of Birth and Fortune too often prove fo many Mischiefs and Snares . Indeed it is not eafy to conceive , how a young Lady , in the Bloom of Beauty , and expos'd to a thousand Hazards and Sollicitations , of which her perfonal ...
... Advantages of Birth and Fortune too often prove fo many Mischiefs and Snares . Indeed it is not eafy to conceive , how a young Lady , in the Bloom of Beauty , and expos'd to a thousand Hazards and Sollicitations , of which her perfonal ...
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... Advantage of being lefs expos'd ; but as this is owing to their being lefs taken Notice of , there is the lefs Merit in it . The World is apt to look on their Refervednefs as a Kind of Conftraint , for which it is no Way obliged to them ...
... Advantage of being lefs expos'd ; but as this is owing to their being lefs taken Notice of , there is the lefs Merit in it . The World is apt to look on their Refervednefs as a Kind of Conftraint , for which it is no Way obliged to them ...
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... Advantage . B I ( 1 ) The Lady , to whom the Marquis of Chetardye infcribed this Treatife , was Mademoiselle de Nantes , natural Daughter to Lewis XIV . by Frances Atha- nafia de Roche Chouart , Marchioness of Montefpan , and Daughter ...
... Advantage . B I ( 1 ) The Lady , to whom the Marquis of Chetardye infcribed this Treatife , was Mademoiselle de Nantes , natural Daughter to Lewis XIV . by Frances Atha- nafia de Roche Chouart , Marchioness of Montefpan , and Daughter ...
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... Advantage ; and , above all , avoid the leaft Sharpness or Refentment in your Man- ner of Expoftulation . Ufe the foftest Terms , and the gentleft Methods you can think of , to regain his Affections , and recal him to his Duty . If ...
... Advantage ; and , above all , avoid the leaft Sharpness or Refentment in your Man- ner of Expoftulation . Ufe the foftest Terms , and the gentleft Methods you can think of , to regain his Affections , and recal him to his Duty . If ...
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... Advantage gain'd by obferving its Rules , that you preferve the E- fteem and Confideration of the World , which , having no other Way tojudge of the Heart , but by our Conduct , is always fatisfied , if that be ap- parently regular and ...
... Advantage gain'd by obferving its Rules , that you preferve the E- fteem and Confideration of the World , which , having no other Way tojudge of the Heart , but by our Conduct , is always fatisfied , if that be ap- parently regular and ...
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Advantage Affiftance againſt appear Beauty becauſe Behaviour believe Cafe Caufe Cenfures Character Compaffion confequently confiderable Converfation Decency deferve defigned defire diculous Diftinction difturb diſcover Drefs eafy Efteem eſtabliſhed Excufe expofed expos'd fafe faid fame fecret feem feldom felf felf-Love felves ferve fhall fhould fince fincere fion firft fome fomething foon Fortune Friend fubject fuch a Conduct fuch ill fuffer fufficient fupport Gallantry Goodneſs happy Heart herſelf Honour Husband Hypocrify impoffible Inconftancy inftead Intereft juft Juftice Kind Lady laft leaft leaſt lefs lofe MADAM Mademoiselle de Nantes Meaſures Merit Miftake Mind Miſchiefs moft moſt muft muſt Nature never nour Number obferve obliged Occafion otherwife ourſelves Paffion pathizing Perfon Pleaſure poffefs poffible preferve Prudence Purpoſe Quality racter Reafon Refentment Refpect Reputation ſcarce Senfe Sufpicion thefe themſelves ther theſe Thing thofe thoſe tion Underſtanding uneafy Virtue Vivacity whofe Wiſdom World yourſelf
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Page 11 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; "Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.