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... Humanity of Your Difpofition , and that happy Be- nevolence , that equally promotes Your own Peace , and the Happiness of those who are honour'd with Your Acquaintance , or Seem entitled any Way to deferve Your Re- lief . IT is with ...
... Humanity of Your Difpofition , and that happy Be- nevolence , that equally promotes Your own Peace , and the Happiness of those who are honour'd with Your Acquaintance , or Seem entitled any Way to deferve Your Re- lief . IT is with ...
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... Humanity , and incapable of Friendship ; That they have Reafon without Reflection , a narrow Judgment , and unbounded Vanity ; That their Wishes are extravagant , and their Paffions indirected . In short , that foolish Jealoufies , and ...
... Humanity , and incapable of Friendship ; That they have Reafon without Reflection , a narrow Judgment , and unbounded Vanity ; That their Wishes are extravagant , and their Paffions indirected . In short , that foolish Jealoufies , and ...
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... Humanity we owe to the Distress of others , all these fhining Virtues lofe their Influence and Force , when counterbalanced by the fingle Weight of Avarice , C NOR will you need , on this Account , MADAM , to run into the oppofite ...
... Humanity we owe to the Distress of others , all these fhining Virtues lofe their Influence and Force , when counterbalanced by the fingle Weight of Avarice , C NOR will you need , on this Account , MADAM , to run into the oppofite ...
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... Humanity that prompts them to relieve the Innocent and Unhap- py ; that true Glory that refults from the Con- junction of Power and Goodness , and the Con- fcioufnefs of acting in a Manner fuitable to the Dignity of their Station ...
... Humanity that prompts them to relieve the Innocent and Unhap- py ; that true Glory that refults from the Con- junction of Power and Goodness , and the Con- fcioufnefs of acting in a Manner fuitable to the Dignity of their Station ...
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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.