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... virtues which want an opportunity of exerting and shewing themselves in actions . Every virtue re- quires time and place , a proper object and a fit conjuncture of circumstances , for the due exer- cise of it . A state of poverty ...
... virtues which want an opportunity of exerting and shewing themselves in actions . Every virtue re- quires time and place , a proper object and a fit conjuncture of circumstances , for the due exer- cise of it . A state of poverty ...
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... virtue in the most important circum- stances of a female life , those of a wife , a widow , and a mother . If there ... virtues concern all the world , and there is no one living who is not а interested that Andromache should be an imita ...
... virtue in the most important circum- stances of a female life , those of a wife , a widow , and a mother . If there ... virtues concern all the world , and there is no one living who is not а interested that Andromache should be an imita ...
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... virtues . So rare a pattern of female excellence ought not to be concealed , but should be set out to the view and imitation of the world ; for how amiable does virtue appear thus , as it were , made visible to us , in so fair an ...
... virtues . So rare a pattern of female excellence ought not to be concealed , but should be set out to the view and imitation of the world ; for how amiable does virtue appear thus , as it were , made visible to us , in so fair an ...
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VOL V | 25 |
LETTER from a Coquette to a new mar | 254 |
Letters from an old Bachelorfrom Lovers | 260 |
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