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None but a person of a finished character , can be the proper patron of a work , which endeavours to cultivate and polish human life , by promoting virtue and knowledge , and by recommending whatsoever may be either useful or ornamental ...
None but a person of a finished character , can be the proper patron of a work , which endeavours to cultivate and polish human life , by promoting virtue and knowledge , and by recommending whatsoever may be either useful or ornamental ...
Pagina 3
His person is well turned , of a good height . He is very ready at that fort of difcourfe with which men ufually entertain women . He has all his life dreffed very well , and remembers habits as others do men .
His person is well turned , of a good height . He is very ready at that fort of difcourfe with which men ufually entertain women . He has all his life dreffed very well , and remembers habits as others do men .
Pagina 6
... behold the beauty of her person chastised by " the innocence of her thoughts . Chastity , " good - nature , and affability , are the graces " that play in her countenance ; fhe knows fhe is " handfome , but she knows fhe is good .
... behold the beauty of her person chastised by " the innocence of her thoughts . Chastity , " good - nature , and affability , are the graces " that play in her countenance ; fhe knows fhe is " handfome , but she knows fhe is good .
Pagina 24
... no nation or person can be concerned for . For this reafon , one may be free upon him . I have put myself to great pains in confidering this prevailing quality which we call impudence , and have taken notice that it exerts itfelf in ...
... no nation or person can be concerned for . For this reafon , one may be free upon him . I have put myself to great pains in confidering this prevailing quality which we call impudence , and have taken notice that it exerts itfelf in ...
Pagina 32
... have of the high obligation you have laid upon me , in the penance you enjoined me of doing fome good or other to a person of worth every day I live . The station I am in furnishes me with daily opportunities of this kind ; N ° 28.
... have of the high obligation you have laid upon me , in the penance you enjoined me of doing fome good or other to a person of worth every day I live . The station I am in furnishes me with daily opportunities of this kind ; N ° 28.
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