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... consider , that she uses me unmercifully , though I believe it is only for want of thought . But I have twenty things more to tell you besides all this : there is a handsome gentleman that has a mind ( I don't question ) to make love to ...
... consider , that she uses me unmercifully , though I believe it is only for want of thought . But I have twenty things more to tell you besides all this : there is a handsome gentleman that has a mind ( I don't question ) to make love to ...
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... considering , and cannot yet determine , which he would choose to be , the Cato or Cretico of that paper ; since my Cato is one of the best of cha- racters . Thus much in my own vindication . As to the only reasons there given why I ...
... considering , and cannot yet determine , which he would choose to be , the Cato or Cretico of that paper ; since my Cato is one of the best of cha- racters . Thus much in my own vindication . As to the only reasons there given why I ...
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... consider , that every stitch he takes when he is on his shop - board is picking up part of a grain of gold , that will in a few days ' time amount to a pistole ; and let Faber think the same of every nail he drives , or every stroke ...
... consider , that every stitch he takes when he is on his shop - board is picking up part of a grain of gold , that will in a few days ' time amount to a pistole ; and let Faber think the same of every nail he drives , or every stroke ...
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... first called him into being ? Say , Ho- ratio , are these men equally wise and happy ? and is every thing to be measured by mere fancy and opinion , without considering whether that fancy or opinion be 38 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
... first called him into being ? Say , Ho- ratio , are these men equally wise and happy ? and is every thing to be measured by mere fancy and opinion , without considering whether that fancy or opinion be 38 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
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Benjamin Franklin. opinion , without considering whether that fancy or opinion be right ? Hor . Hardly so neither , I think : yet sure the wise and good Author of nature could never make us to plague us . He could never give us passions ...
Benjamin Franklin. opinion , without considering whether that fancy or opinion be right ? Hor . Hardly so neither , I think : yet sure the wise and good Author of nature could never make us to plague us . He could never give us passions ...
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