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I stopped my horse , lately , where a great number of people were collected at an
auction of merchants ' goods . The hour of sale not being come , they were
conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a
plain ...
I stopped my horse , lately , where a great number of people were collected at an
auction of merchants ' goods . The hour of sale not being come , they were
conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a
plain ...
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Again , “ It is foolish to lay out money in a purchase of repentance ; " poort and yet
this ' folly is practised - every day at auctions , ter to for want of minding the
Almanack . Many a one , for the sake of finery on the back , have gone with a hun
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Again , “ It is foolish to lay out money in a purchase of repentance ; " poort and yet
this ' folly is practised - every day at auctions , ter to for want of minding the
Almanack . Many a one , for the sake of finery on the back , have gone with a hun
...
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... it had been a common sermon ; for the auction opened , and they began to buy
extravagantly . I found the good man had thoroughly studied my Almanacks , and
digested all I had dropt on those topics during the course of twenty - five years .
... it had been a common sermon ; for the auction opened , and they began to buy
extravagantly . I found the good man had thoroughly studied my Almanacks , and
digested all I had dropt on those topics during the course of twenty - five years .
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As he was a man of gallantry , and despised all that wore the pedantic
appearance of philosophy , wherever pleasure was to be sold , he was generally
foremost to raise the auction . Being an universal admirer of the fair sex , when he
found ...
As he was a man of gallantry , and despised all that wore the pedantic
appearance of philosophy , wherever pleasure was to be sold , he was generally
foremost to raise the auction . Being an universal admirer of the fair sex , when he
found ...
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| Title | Preceptive, Moral, and Sentimental Pieces: On the Duties of the Young, Issue 10 Preceptive, Moral, and Sentimental Pieces: On the Duties of the Young |
| Publisher | G. Nicholson, 1796 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 20 pages |
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