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... pleased . I was still favoured with fome incidental pre- cepts and tranfient endearments , and was now and then fondly kiffed for fmiling like my pappa : but moft part of her morning was fpent in comparing the opinion of her maid and ...
... pleased . I was still favoured with fome incidental pre- cepts and tranfient endearments , and was now and then fondly kiffed for fmiling like my pappa : but moft part of her morning was fpent in comparing the opinion of her maid and ...
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... pleased himself with foreseeing that the poffeflions of thofe ladies must revert at laft to the hereditary eftate , and that his family might lofe none of its dignity , refolved to keep me untainted with a lucrative em- ployment ...
... pleased himself with foreseeing that the poffeflions of thofe ladies must revert at laft to the hereditary eftate , and that his family might lofe none of its dignity , refolved to keep me untainted with a lucrative em- ployment ...
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... pleased with that obfequioufnefs and reverence which wealth inftantaneously procures . But this joy is now paft , and I have returned again to my old habit of wifhing . Being accustomed to give the future full power over my mind , and ...
... pleased with that obfequioufnefs and reverence which wealth inftantaneously procures . But this joy is now paft , and I have returned again to my old habit of wifhing . Being accustomed to give the future full power over my mind , and ...
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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