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... nature require you should grieve ; happy sisters must now be deprived but , at the same time , all precedents of the friend and guardian of their and examples of fortune demand youth , orphans and unfriended be- that you should again be ...
... nature require you should grieve ; happy sisters must now be deprived but , at the same time , all precedents of the friend and guardian of their and examples of fortune demand youth , orphans and unfriended be- that you should again be ...
Page 173
... nature for what we have ! We have , learer for having struggled through there , an advantage over your sex . ad shaken off these clogs of absurd- You are in the right to keep us in ies ; yet its appearing in its native ignorance . You ...
... nature for what we have ! We have , learer for having struggled through there , an advantage over your sex . ad shaken off these clogs of absurd- You are in the right to keep us in ies ; yet its appearing in its native ignorance . You ...
Page 363
... nature ; and in looking forward to it , have been a - bed and asleep . Yet , there is comfort in being able to re- had I gone at 70 , it would have cut off twelve of the most active years of my life , employed , too , in matters of the ...
... nature ; and in looking forward to it , have been a - bed and asleep . Yet , there is comfort in being able to re- had I gone at 70 , it would have cut off twelve of the most active years of my life , employed , too , in matters of the ...
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