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... sent out to learn fome curious " and ingenious forts of manufacture , that " are proper for women to learn ; particularly " embroideries in gold or filver . ' " " In this scene of mifery which this mode of intellectual labour fets ...
... sent out to learn fome curious " and ingenious forts of manufacture , that " are proper for women to learn ; particularly " embroideries in gold or filver . ' " " In this scene of mifery which this mode of intellectual labour fets ...
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... sent for his godfon , and placed him at his own feat in Yorkshire , where he was inftructed in Latin ; which he learned fo as to write it with purity and elegance , though he was never able to retain the rules of grammar . Such Such is ...
... sent for his godfon , and placed him at his own feat in Yorkshire , where he was inftructed in Latin ; which he learned fo as to write it with purity and elegance , though he was never able to retain the rules of grammar . Such Such is ...
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