The Lounger: A Periodical Paper, Volume 2A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1787 |
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... things to be forgotten , 52. On the difcrimination of female character . Different plan of education in two mothers of different talents aad difpofitions , 53. The Petition of NIGHT , complaining of the encroachments of fashionable ...
... things to be forgotten , 52. On the difcrimination of female character . Different plan of education in two mothers of different talents aad difpofitions , 53. The Petition of NIGHT , complaining of the encroachments of fashionable ...
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... things are changed with us from what I remember ; and yet perhaps we are not so much to be envied neither , if all were known . Do tell me , Sir , how we fhall manage to be as happy as people suppose our good fortune muft have made us ...
... things are changed with us from what I remember ; and yet perhaps we are not so much to be envied neither , if all were known . Do tell me , Sir , how we fhall manage to be as happy as people suppose our good fortune muft have made us ...
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... thing we ought to do to be fashionable , and like the great folks of London and Paris . Monf . de Sabot is ... things , we had pure good appe- tites , and , after the table was uncovered , used to be as merry as grigs at Cross purposes ...
... thing we ought to do to be fashionable , and like the great folks of London and Paris . Monf . de Sabot is ... things , we had pure good appe- tites , and , after the table was uncovered , used to be as merry as grigs at Cross purposes ...
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... things , which Monf . de Sabot fays every body comi fo does . And fuch a thing he tells me ( for I am a fort of favourite and scholar of his ) is comi fo in the first , courfe , and fuch a thing in the fecond ; and this in the entries ...
... things , which Monf . de Sabot fays every body comi fo does . And fuch a thing he tells me ( for I am a fort of favourite and scholar of his ) is comi fo in the first , courfe , and fuch a thing in the fecond ; and this in the entries ...
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... things which happened to them formerly , though ten to one my brother does not remember a fyllable of them . As t'other day , when our fchool- master's fon Samuel put him in mind of their going together to Edinburgh for the first time ...
... things which happened to them formerly , though ten to one my brother does not remember a fyllable of them . As t'other day , when our fchool- master's fon Samuel put him in mind of their going together to Edinburgh for the first time ...
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