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Page 23
... young for the fashion , and she has hear from them , though I did verily nothing to do but to transplant her- think they intended to send me very self hither about seven years hence , entertaining letters . But I had ra- to be again a young ...
... young for the fashion , and she has hear from them , though I did verily nothing to do but to transplant her- think they intended to send me very self hither about seven years hence , entertaining letters . But I had ra- to be again a young ...
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 ...
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