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... virtue to our own coun- try , and have fraternized , like true cosmopolites , with our neighbours and contemporaries , we have made our self - love amends by letting the genera- tion we live in engross nearly all our admiration and by ...
... virtue to our own coun- try , and have fraternized , like true cosmopolites , with our neighbours and contemporaries , we have made our self - love amends by letting the genera- tion we live in engross nearly all our admiration and by ...
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... virtues were the virtues of political machines , their vices were the vices of demons , ready to inflict or to endure pain with obdurate and remorseless in- flexibility of purpose . But in the Christian re- ligion , we perceive a ...
... virtues were the virtues of political machines , their vices were the vices of demons , ready to inflict or to endure pain with obdurate and remorseless in- flexibility of purpose . But in the Christian re- ligion , we perceive a ...
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... virtue thou shalt continue thy natural course . Cynthia . Endymion ! Speak , sweet Endymion ! Knowest thou not Cynthia ? Endymion . Oh , heavens ! whom do I behold ? Fair Cyn- thia , divine Cynthia ? Cynthia . I am Cynthia , and thou ...
... virtue thou shalt continue thy natural course . Cynthia . Endymion ! Speak , sweet Endymion ! Knowest thou not Cynthia ? Endymion . Oh , heavens ! whom do I behold ? Fair Cyn- thia , divine Cynthia ? Cynthia . I am Cynthia , and thou ...
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... virtue to the most abandoned vice , in which she is notably seconded by her mother- in - law's ready submission to the temptations of wealth and power , form a true and striking pic- ture . The first intimation of the intrigue that ...
... virtue to the most abandoned vice , in which she is notably seconded by her mother- in - law's ready submission to the temptations of wealth and power , form a true and striking pic- ture . The first intimation of the intrigue that ...
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... virtue having been impaired with the progress of years , tries in vain to lure her back again to her former follies , has an effect the most striking and beautiful . The pleadings on both sides , for and against female faith and ...
... virtue having been impaired with the progress of years , tries in vain to lure her back again to her former follies , has an effect the most striking and beautiful . The pleadings on both sides , for and against female faith and ...
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