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... Husband - Provision for Pastorals- Public Impostors - Joshua Barnes 144. Prevalence of Extravagance and Show -Change ... Husbands - Three letters of Pliny to his Wife - Passage from Milton ... 150. Matrimonial Quarrels - Characters of an ...
... Husband - Provision for Pastorals- Public Impostors - Joshua Barnes 144. Prevalence of Extravagance and Show -Change ... Husbands - Three letters of Pliny to his Wife - Passage from Milton ... 150. Matrimonial Quarrels - Characters of an ...
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... husband : but to my great pleasure , he used her at first with coldness , and afterwards with con- tempt . I hear he still treats her very ill ; and am informed , that she often says to her woman , this is a just revenge for my ...
... husband : but to my great pleasure , he used her at first with coldness , and afterwards with con- tempt . I hear he still treats her very ill ; and am informed , that she often says to her woman , this is a just revenge for my ...
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... husband to buy in a couple of fresh coach - horses : and with no other loss than the death of two footmen , and a church - yard cough brought upon her coachman , she was clear in the world on the tenth of February last , and keeps so ...
... husband to buy in a couple of fresh coach - horses : and with no other loss than the death of two footmen , and a church - yard cough brought upon her coachman , she was clear in the world on the tenth of February last , and keeps so ...
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... husband and children , in a manner proper for so solemn a parting , and with a gracefulness peculiar to a woman of her character . My heart was torn to pieces , to see the husband on one side suppressing and keeping down the swellings ...
... husband and children , in a manner proper for so solemn a parting , and with a gracefulness peculiar to a woman of her character . My heart was torn to pieces , to see the husband on one side suppressing and keeping down the swellings ...
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... husbands ; and , therefore , by no means to be thought of till some years after a peace . I further urged , that it would be a preju- dice to the ladies themselves , who could never ex- pect to have any money in the pocket , if they ...
... husbands ; and , therefore , by no means to be thought of till some years after a peace . I further urged , that it would be a preju- dice to the ladies themselves , who could never ex- pect to have any money in the pocket , if they ...
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