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I must confess , when I have seen Charles Frankair rise up with a commanding
mien , and torrent of handsome words , talk a mile off the purpose , and drive
down twenty bashful boobies of ten times his sense , who at the same time were
...
I must confess , when I have seen Charles Frankair rise up with a commanding
mien , and torrent of handsome words , talk a mile off the purpose , and drive
down twenty bashful boobies of ten times his sense , who at the same time were
...
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But is the sense of joy and accomplishment of desire no way to be indulged or
attained ? And have we appetites given us not to be at all gratified ? Yes ,
certainly : marriage is an institution calculated for a constant scene of as much
delight as ...
But is the sense of joy and accomplishment of desire no way to be indulged or
attained ? And have we appetites given us not to be at all gratified ? Yes ,
certainly : marriage is an institution calculated for a constant scene of as much
delight as ...
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By a man of sense , I mean one acquainted with business and letters . A woman
very much settles her esteem for a man , according to the figure he makes in the
world , and the character he bears among his own sex . As learning is the chief ...
By a man of sense , I mean one acquainted with business and letters . A woman
very much settles her esteem for a man , according to the figure he makes in the
world , and the character he bears among his own sex . As learning is the chief ...
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... and heaven has educated him by adversity to a quick sense of the distresses
and miseries of mankind , which he was born to redress ; in just scorn of the trivial
glories and light ostentations of power , that glorious instrument of Providence ...
... and heaven has educated him by adversity to a quick sense of the distresses
and miseries of mankind , which he was born to redress ; in just scorn of the trivial
glories and light ostentations of power , that glorious instrument of Providence ...
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There are many other creatures but one remove from these , which have no other
sense , besides that of feeling and taste . Others have still an additionalone of
hearing ; others of smell , and others of sight . It is wonderful to observe , by what
a ...
There are many other creatures but one remove from these , which have no other
sense , besides that of feeling and taste . Others have still an additionalone of
hearing ; others of smell , and others of sight . It is wonderful to observe , by what
a ...
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