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Page 73
... young man , refinement in all the arts is carried whom I remember a boy . He has to an excess , I suppose it is always a wife , who is young , genteel , and rare . The later Roman writers are handsome . They are Papists , but remarkable ...
... young man , refinement in all the arts is carried whom I remember a boy . He has to an excess , I suppose it is always a wife , who is young , genteel , and rare . The later Roman writers are handsome . They are Papists , but remarkable ...
Page 114
... young men the comfort to hear from several of distinction that come to study with hands , that he , and his sisters , and us , that they find too easy and too the whole family , behave with a pro- favourable an admittance to balls , as ...
... young men the comfort to hear from several of distinction that come to study with hands , that he , and his sisters , and us , that they find too easy and too the whole family , behave with a pro- favourable an admittance to balls , as ...
Page 115
... young audience Whether they would choose to ac- will be little the wiser for having at- cept of the office of tutor to any tended him . The most profitable young gentleman , they themselves part of my time is that which I em- only can ...
... young audience Whether they would choose to ac- will be little the wiser for having at- cept of the office of tutor to any tended him . The most profitable young gentleman , they themselves part of my time is that which I em- only can ...
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