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... live in , it is a Point of Prudence to accommodate your felf to the Fafhion . After all , it is not the Choice or Colour of a Ribband , the Adjustment of a Curl , or the Pofition of a Patch , which produce fuch ill Confequences ( 1 ) ...
... live in , it is a Point of Prudence to accommodate your felf to the Fafhion . After all , it is not the Choice or Colour of a Ribband , the Adjustment of a Curl , or the Pofition of a Patch , which produce fuch ill Confequences ( 1 ) ...
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... live in an Age wherein People are obli- ged to appear , at leaft prudent , fo early , and confequently the Seafon of Pleasure and Diver- fion is to thort , ( 1 ) that I think the ferious Man- ner is the more eligible of the Two . THE ...
... live in an Age wherein People are obli- ged to appear , at leaft prudent , fo early , and confequently the Seafon of Pleasure and Diver- fion is to thort , ( 1 ) that I think the ferious Man- ner is the more eligible of the Two . THE ...
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... live in fo adventurous an Age , that , if a La- dy discover the leaft Weakness this Way , there are but too many ready to turn it to their own Ad- vantage . WHEN a Difference of this Kind arifes , a Lady has very great Measures to ...
... live in fo adventurous an Age , that , if a La- dy discover the leaft Weakness this Way , there are but too many ready to turn it to their own Ad- vantage . WHEN a Difference of this Kind arifes , a Lady has very great Measures to ...
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... live in is fo cenforious , that that will rather be made a Handle of to condemn you . The Faults of the Vulgar are conceal'd by the Obscurity of their Birth and Condition . It is quite otherwife with Perfons of your Diftinction ; their ...
... live in is fo cenforious , that that will rather be made a Handle of to condemn you . The Faults of the Vulgar are conceal'd by the Obscurity of their Birth and Condition . It is quite otherwife with Perfons of your Diftinction ; their ...
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... Lives depends principally on our good or ill Management . Reft content then in that Uncertainty of your Fate , which the Wildom ( 1 ) The Term of Coffee - Toffer is of the Tranfla tor's Addition , the Practice being entirely modern ...
... Lives depends principally on our good or ill Management . Reft content then in that Uncertainty of your Fate , which the Wildom ( 1 ) The Term of Coffee - Toffer is of the Tranfla tor's Addition , the Practice being entirely modern ...
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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.