 | Books and bookselling - 1788 - 588 pages
...frequents as the moft fathionable rake, the beft drcfied voluptuary in the nation : if this be rightry conjectured, why will not every woman, who has her choice to make, direct her ambition to thofe objects which will give her moft fatisfaction when attained ? There can be no reafon but becaufe... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Conduct of life - 1788 - 346 pages
...than in being pointed out in all circles fhe frequents as the moft fafhionable rake, the beft dreiTed voluptuary in the nation : If this be rightly conjectured,...who has her choice to make, direct her ambition to thofe objects, which will give her moft fatiffaction, when attained ? There can be no reafon but becaufe... | |
 | History - 1790 - 562 pages
...than in. being pointed out in all circles fhe freqacnts as the moft faihionable rake, the beil drefled voluptuary in the nation ; if this be rightly conjectured,...woman, who has her choice to make, direct her ambition tothofe objefts, which »vil I give her moft fatisfaftion, whrn attained ? there can be no reafon but... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1790 - 646 pages
...than in being pointed out in all circles fhe frequents as the moft fafhionable rake, the beft-drefled voluptuary in the nation : if this be rightly conjectured,...will not every woman, who has her choice to make, direft her ambition to thofe obj efts, which will give her moft fatisfaftion, when attained ? there... | |
 | History - 1790 - 566 pages
...than in being pointed out in all circles ihe frequents as the moft faftuonable1 rake, the beft drefled voluptuary in the nation ; if this be rightly conjectured,...will not every woman, who has her choice to make, direft h'er ambition to thofe objefls, which will give her moft fatisfa&ion, when attained } there... | |
 | English literature - 1788 - 678 pages
...than in being pointed out in all circles Hie frequents, a* the molt fafluonable rake, the beft drdfed voluptuary in the nation. If this be rightly conjectured, why will not «very woman, who has her choice to make, direét her ambition to thofe objects which will give her... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 424 pages
...wife, the best mother, the most exemplary woman of her time, VOL. XXXIX. LL than in being pointed oat in all circles she frequents as the most fashionable...fortitude to surmount; and it is plain she does not lore fame well enough to be at much pains in acquiring it; her ambition does not reach at noble ol.jects,... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Conduct of life - 1817 - 432 pages
...than in being pointed out in all circles she frequent^ as the most fashionable rake, the best-dressed voluptuary in the nation: if this be rightly conjectured,...does not love fame well enough to be at much pains in ac-. quiring it; her ambition does not reach at noble objects, her passion for celebrity is no better... | |
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... voluptuary in the nation : if this be rightly conjectured, why will not every woman, who has her choice to make, direct her ambition to those objects, which will give her most satisfaction when attained ? There can be no reason but because it imposes... 