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Page 23
... assure compassion for the mortifications , you , that if I loved you one grain less that you tell me befel our little old than I do , I should be very sorry to friend ; and I pity her much more , see it so diverting as it is . The mor ...
... assure compassion for the mortifications , you , that if I loved you one grain less that you tell me befel our little old than I do , I should be very sorry to friend ; and I pity her much more , see it so diverting as it is . The mor ...
Page 71
... assure yourself I have no much the better for them ; their po- friend in the world with whom I com- verty is indeed their mercy . Yours , municate without the least reserve , my dear friend . yourself excepted . Take heart then ; and ...
... assure yourself I have no much the better for them ; their po- friend in the world with whom I com- verty is indeed their mercy . Yours , municate without the least reserve , my dear friend . yourself excepted . Take heart then ; and ...
Page 190
... Assure him , you will excuse my having said so however , that though as a philoso- much , of a man with whom you were pher I may prefer celibacy , yet , as a unacquainted ; but my mind is just politician , I think it highly proper now ...
... Assure him , you will excuse my having said so however , that though as a philoso- much , of a man with whom you were pher I may prefer celibacy , yet , as a unacquainted ; but my mind is just politician , I think it highly proper now ...
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