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Pagina xxiii
None but a perfon of a finished character , be the proper patron of a work , which endeavours to cultivate and polifh human life , by promoting virtue and knowledge , and by recommending whatsoever may be either useful or ornamental to ...
None but a perfon of a finished character , be the proper patron of a work , which endeavours to cultivate and polifh human life , by promoting virtue and knowledge , and by recommending whatsoever may be either useful or ornamental to ...
Pagina 7
The perfon of next confideration , is Sir Andrew Freeport , a merchant of great eminence in the city of London ; a perfon of indefatigable industry , ftrong reafon , and great experience . His notions of trade are noble and generous ...
The perfon of next confideration , is Sir Andrew Freeport , a merchant of great eminence in the city of London ; a perfon of indefatigable industry , ftrong reafon , and great experience . His notions of trade are noble and generous ...
Pagina 9
His perfon 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 perfon 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 16
There are , I must confefs , many to whom my perfon is as well known as that of their nearest relations , who give themfelves no farther trouble about calling me by my name or quality , but fpeak of me very currently by Mr. What d've ...
There are , I must confefs , many to whom my perfon is as well known as that of their nearest relations , who give themfelves no farther trouble about calling me by my name or quality , but fpeak of me very currently by Mr. What d've ...
Pagina 17
What a bloom in that perfon ! " How is the whole woman expreffed in her appearance ! 64 her air has the beauty of motion , and her look the " force of language . ” It was prudence to turn away my eyes from this object , and therefore I ...
What a bloom in that perfon ! " How is the whole woman expreffed in her appearance ! 64 her air has the beauty of motion , and her look the " force of language . ” It was prudence to turn away my eyes from this object , and therefore I ...
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