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Page 79
... hours for which they can find no other amusement , to gain or preserve that respect which learning has always ... hour . " A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists , without any practical regard to ...
... hours for which they can find no other amusement , to gain or preserve that respect which learning has always ... hour . " A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists , without any practical regard to ...
Page 158
... hour , I sunk quietly to a level with the rest of the company . But no sooner were the dishes removed than , instead ... hours to which so much happiness was decreed ; the hours which had , by a kind of open proclamation , been devoted ...
... hour , I sunk quietly to a level with the rest of the company . But no sooner were the dishes removed than , instead ... hours to which so much happiness was decreed ; the hours which had , by a kind of open proclamation , been devoted ...
Page 189
... hour to my pen , and the next to my needle , or wait at home for the dancing master one day , and the next for the ... hours or family rules . " I am , sir , " Your humble servant , 66 PROPERANTIA , " " MR . RAMBLER , " I WAS seized this ...
... hour to my pen , and the next to my needle , or wait at home for the dancing master one day , and the next for the ... hours or family rules . " I am , sir , " Your humble servant , 66 PROPERANTIA , " " MR . RAMBLER , " I WAS seized this ...
Contents
Peevishness equally wretched and offensivethe Character of Tetrica | 74 |
The World never known but by a Change of Fortune the History of Melissa | 75 |
The Arts by which bad Men are reconciled to them selves | 76 |
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