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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 , clean old man , with white locks
, Pray , father Abraham , what think you of the times ? Will not those heavy taxes ...
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 , clean old man , with white locks
, Pray , father Abraham , what think you of the times ? Will not those heavy taxes ...
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... can scarcely be called the conveniences : and yet only because they look
pretty , how many want to have them ? - By these , and other extravagan . cies ,
the genteel are reduced to poverty , and forced to borrow of those whom they
formerly ...
... can scarcely be called the conveniences : and yet only because they look
pretty , how many want to have them ? - By these , and other extravagan . cies ,
the genteel are reduced to poverty , and forced to borrow of those whom they
formerly ...
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Whenever he fell into any misery , he usually called it seeing life . If his head was
broke by a chairman , or his pocket picked by a sharper , he comforted himself by
imitating the Hibernian dialect of the one , or the more fashionable cant of the ...
Whenever he fell into any misery , he usually called it seeing life . If his head was
broke by a chairman , or his pocket picked by a sharper , he comforted himself by
imitating the Hibernian dialect of the one , or the more fashionable cant of the ...
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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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