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Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse , Ere fancy you consult , consult your
purse . " And again , “ Pride is as loud a beggar as Want , and a great deal more
saucy . ” When you have bought one fine thing , you must buy ten more , that your
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Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse , Ere fancy you consult , consult your
purse . " And again , “ Pride is as loud a beggar as Want , and a great deal more
saucy . ” When you have bought one fine thing , you must buy ten more , that your
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What would you think of that prince , or of that government , who should issue an
edict forbidding you to dress like a gentleman or gentlewoman , on pain of
imprisonment or servitude ? Would you not say that you were free , have a right to
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What would you think of that prince , or of that government , who should issue an
edict forbidding you to dress like a gentleman or gentlewoman , on pain of
imprisonment or servitude ? Would you not say that you were free , have a right to
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Yet experience and sensation in vain persuade ; hope , more powerful than
either , dresses out the distant prospect in fancied beauty ; some happiness , in
long perspec - * * tive , still beckons me to pursue ; and like a losing gamester ,
every ...
Yet experience and sensation in vain persuade ; hope , more powerful than
either , dresses out the distant prospect in fancied beauty ; some happiness , in
long perspec - * * tive , still beckons me to pursue ; and like a losing gamester ,
every ...
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They feel , in short , as little anguish at their own distress , or the complaints of
others , as the undertaker though dress . ed in black , feels sorrow at a funeral . Of
all the men I ever read of , the famous Cardinal de Retz possessed this
happiness ...
They feel , in short , as little anguish at their own distress , or the complaints of
others , as the undertaker though dress . ed in black , feels sorrow at a funeral . Of
all the men I ever read of , the famous Cardinal de Retz possessed this
happiness ...
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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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