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Page 8
... fortune . It is the fashion with parents ( how justly I leave you to judge ) to make all regards give way to the article of wealth . From this one consideration it is , that I have con- cealed the ardent love I have for her ; but I am ...
... fortune . It is the fashion with parents ( how justly I leave you to judge ) to make all regards give way to the article of wealth . From this one consideration it is , that I have con- cealed the ardent love I have for her ; but I am ...
Page 49
... fortune by it , not questioning but every woman that falls in his way will do him as much jus- tice as he does ... fortune hunters and fortune - stealers . The first are those as siduous gentlemen who employ their whole lives in the ...
... fortune by it , not questioning but every woman that falls in his way will do him as much jus- tice as he does ... fortune hunters and fortune - stealers . The first are those as siduous gentlemen who employ their whole lives in the ...
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... fortune below the capacity of acting according to his natural temper , than to say of him , That gentle- man was generous ? ' My beloved author therefore has , in the sentence on the top of my paper , turned his eye with a certain ...
... fortune below the capacity of acting according to his natural temper , than to say of him , That gentle- man was generous ? ' My beloved author therefore has , in the sentence on the top of my paper , turned his eye with a certain ...
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