The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... virtue , and to be susceptible of either , were there proper pains taken with her . Had her journal been filled with galantries , or such occurrences as had shewn her wholly divested of her natural innocence , not- withstanding it might ...
... virtue , and to be susceptible of either , were there proper pains taken with her . Had her journal been filled with galantries , or such occurrences as had shewn her wholly divested of her natural innocence , not- withstanding it might ...
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... virtues of it sooner ; but it was too late to com- plain , and I knew what he had done was out of good- will . Sir ROGER told me farther , that he looked upon it to be very good for a man whilft he staid in town , to keep off infection ...
... virtues of it sooner ; but it was too late to com- plain , and I knew what he had done was out of good- will . Sir ROGER told me farther , that he looked upon it to be very good for a man whilft he staid in town , to keep off infection ...
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... virtue . It would be a worthy work to shew ' what great charities are to be done without expence , ' and how many ... virtues . I repeat to you , Sir , my request to print this , in return for • all the evil an helpless orphan ...
... virtue . It would be a worthy work to shew ' what great charities are to be done without expence , ' and how many ... virtues . I repeat to you , Sir , my request to print this , in return for • all the evil an helpless orphan ...
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... virtue , which • ought to be our first and principal care , was more usually acquired in the former . • I intend therefore , in this letter , to offer at me- * thods , by which I conceive boys might be made to improve in virtue , as ...
... virtue , which • ought to be our first and principal care , was more usually acquired in the former . • I intend therefore , in this letter , to offer at me- * thods , by which I conceive boys might be made to improve in virtue , as ...
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... virtue , or give him an aversion to any par- ticular vice . If , says Horace , my father advised me to live within bounds , and be contented with the fortune ⚫ he should leave me ; Do you not fee ( says he ) the mi- • ferable condition ...
... virtue , or give him an aversion to any par- ticular vice . If , says Horace , my father advised me to live within bounds , and be contented with the fortune ⚫ he should leave me ; Do you not fee ( says he ) the mi- • ferable condition ...
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