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... honour'd with Your Acquaintance , or Seem entitled any Way to deferve Your Re- lief . IT is with Pleafure , MADAM , that at the fame Time I have Tour LADYSHIP'S Permilion to throw this Ellay under Your favourable Protection ; I have ...
... honour'd with Your Acquaintance , or Seem entitled any Way to deferve Your Re- lief . IT is with Pleafure , MADAM , that at the fame Time I have Tour LADYSHIP'S Permilion to throw this Ellay under Your favourable Protection ; I have ...
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... Honour is to be gain'd , and yet it is their Approbation only is worth the Acquifition . But how defire- able foever that may be , I would not have you to be too follicitous to obtain it . Leave your Beauty and Virtue to procure it for ...
... Honour is to be gain'd , and yet it is their Approbation only is worth the Acquifition . But how defire- able foever that may be , I would not have you to be too follicitous to obtain it . Leave your Beauty and Virtue to procure it for ...
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... honour with your Confi- dence , fhould be of fo advanc'd an Age , and fo unblemish'd a Character , that your Acquaintance need not fear the Cenfures of the World , for in- fringing the Rules of Decency . JUDGE , MADAM , of the ...
... honour with your Confi- dence , fhould be of fo advanc'd an Age , and fo unblemish'd a Character , that your Acquaintance need not fear the Cenfures of the World , for in- fringing the Rules of Decency . JUDGE , MADAM , of the ...
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... Honour , his Fortune , and his Life , in your Caufe , does it without the Hope of fome Return . Do not imagine your Quality , in this Cafe , will fcreen you from Reflection . The Age we live in is fo cenforious , that that will rather ...
... Honour , his Fortune , and his Life , in your Caufe , does it without the Hope of fome Return . Do not imagine your Quality , in this Cafe , will fcreen you from Reflection . The Age we live in is fo cenforious , that that will rather ...
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... Honour . Courage is a Quality entirely foreign to your Sex , and there is nothing you ought to avoid more , than making a Noife in the World . CURIOSITY ( by which I mean the Defire of knowing future Events , for there is another Kind ...
... Honour . Courage is a Quality entirely foreign to your Sex , and there is nothing you ought to avoid more , than making a Noife in the World . CURIOSITY ( by which I mean the Defire of knowing future Events , for there is another Kind ...
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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.