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... ladies , who have had no other end or ambition than to fill up the day and the night with dress , diverfions , and flattery , and who , ha- ving made no acquaintance with knowledge or with business , have conftantly caught all their ...
... ladies , who have had no other end or ambition than to fill up the day and the night with dress , diverfions , and flattery , and who , ha- ving made no acquaintance with knowledge or with business , have conftantly caught all their ...
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... ladies con- tented themselves to be found employed in domes- tic duties ; for then routes , drums , balls , affem- blies , and fuch like markets for women , were not known . Modefty and diffidence ... ladies . Advice to unmarried ladies,
... ladies con- tented themselves to be found employed in domes- tic duties ; for then routes , drums , balls , affem- blies , and fuch like markets for women , were not known . Modefty and diffidence ... ladies . Advice to unmarried ladies,
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... lady of fuch good principles must be addreffed only by the man who at least made a fhew of good principles , whether his heart was yet quite right or not . Nor did the young lady's behaviour , at any time of the fervice , leffen this ...
... lady of fuch good principles must be addreffed only by the man who at least made a fhew of good principles , whether his heart was yet quite right or not . Nor did the young lady's behaviour , at any time of the fervice , leffen this ...
Contents
A deathbed the true fchool of wiſdom The effects | 54 |
The dignity and uſefulneſs of biography | 60 |
Paffion not to be eradicated | 66 |
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