Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality. By Mr. Addison |
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... wife . This subject has irrefistibly obtruded itself upon my mind in the filent hour of meditation , because , as often as I have reviewed the scenes in which I have mixed among the busy and the gay , I have observed that a depravity of ...
... wife . This subject has irrefistibly obtruded itself upon my mind in the filent hour of meditation , because , as often as I have reviewed the scenes in which I have mixed among the busy and the gay , I have observed that a depravity of ...
Page 6
... wife known , they may share the box and the draw- ing - room without distinction . The same fashion which takes away the veil of modesty , will necessa- rily conceal lewdness ; and honour and shame will lose their influence , because ...
... wife known , they may share the box and the draw- ing - room without distinction . The same fashion which takes away the veil of modesty , will necessa- rily conceal lewdness ; and honour and shame will lose their influence , because ...
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... wife would expect upon his death . He * conjured her not to determine under the influence " of prejudice and custom , but according to the " laws of reason and nature . After mature delibe- " ration , " said he , " remember that the ...
... wife would expect upon his death . He * conjured her not to determine under the influence " of prejudice and custom , but according to the " laws of reason and nature . After mature delibe- " ration , " said he , " remember that the ...
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... wife , and had disappeared upon pretence of a voyage to fea , had been employed to impose upon them , by concealing her character , in order to obtain such accommodation for her as she could not so easily have procured if it had been ...
... wife , and had disappeared upon pretence of a voyage to fea , had been employed to impose upon them , by concealing her character , in order to obtain such accommodation for her as she could not so easily have procured if it had been ...
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... wife , whose character was now become " notoriously infamous ; for that she had been seen " at the lodgings of a known prostitute , with whom " she appeared to be well acquainted . " This ac- count threw Mercator into another agony ...
... wife , whose character was now become " notoriously infamous ; for that she had been seen " at the lodgings of a known prostitute , with whom " she appeared to be well acquainted . " This ac- count threw Mercator into another agony ...
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