The Rambler. ...W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, B. Collins, T. Longman, B. Law [and 17 others in London], 1784 - 1796 |
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... myself , to the care of my mother , a woman of birth and education , whofe prudence or virtue he had no reason to diftruft . She felt , for fome time , all the forrow which nature calls forth , upon the final feparation of perfons dear ...
... myself , to the care of my mother , a woman of birth and education , whofe prudence or virtue he had no reason to diftruft . She felt , for fome time , all the forrow which nature calls forth , upon the final feparation of perfons dear ...
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... myself coldly received , with an obfervation , " that this girl will presently be a woman . I was , after the usual stay , fent to school again , and overheard my mother fay , as I was a going , “ Well , now I fhall recover . " In fix ...
... myself coldly received , with an obfervation , " that this girl will presently be a woman . I was , after the usual stay , fent to school again , and overheard my mother fay , as I was a going , “ Well , now I fhall recover . " In fix ...
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... myself under great obligations , had fhe not accompanied her favour with fome hints . that my mamma might now confider her age , and give me her ear - rings , which fhe had fhewn long enough in publick places . I now left the school and ...
... myself under great obligations , had fhe not accompanied her favour with fome hints . that my mamma might now confider her age , and give me her ear - rings , which fhe had fhewn long enough in publick places . I now left the school and ...
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... myself , as placed in a very incommodious fituation , where I am forced- to reprefs confidence , which it is pleafing to indulge , to repay civilities with appearances of neglect , and fo frequently to offend those by whom I never was ...
... myself , as placed in a very incommodious fituation , where I am forced- to reprefs confidence , which it is pleafing to indulge , to repay civilities with appearances of neglect , and fo frequently to offend those by whom I never was ...
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... myself over- paid for the time spent in reading the life of Malherb , by being enabled to relate , after the learned bio- grapher , that Malherb had two predominant opinions ; one , that the looseness of a single woman 5 might " might ...
... myself over- paid for the time spent in reading the life of Malherb , by being enabled to relate , after the learned bio- grapher , that Malherb had two predominant opinions ; one , that the looseness of a single woman 5 might " might ...
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