Letters Addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman, on the Formation of Religious and Moral Principle, Volume 1 |
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... dear Lady Elizabeth , THE correspondence , from which I promised myself so much pleasure , has , by the occurrence of unforeseen circumstances , been interrupted ; but the tender affection , which led me so willingly to embrace the ...
... dear Lady Elizabeth , THE correspondence , from which I promised myself so much pleasure , has , by the occurrence of unforeseen circumstances , been interrupted ; but the tender affection , which led me so willingly to embrace the ...
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... dear little girls ever feel so happy , in the indulgence of a capricious humour , as they have done when , after having conquered the wayward inclination to disobedience , they have read in the eyes of their friends that approbation ...
... dear little girls ever feel so happy , in the indulgence of a capricious humour , as they have done when , after having conquered the wayward inclination to disobedience , they have read in the eyes of their friends that approbation ...
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... dear child , have been initiated in the doc . trines of a philosophy more valuable than all they knew or taught ; a phi- losophy , which , instead of laying down rules for the conduct in particular instances , extends its purifying ...
... dear child , have been initiated in the doc . trines of a philosophy more valuable than all they knew or taught ; a phi- losophy , which , instead of laying down rules for the conduct in particular instances , extends its purifying ...
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... dear to my affections : • but it is by constant and habitual ex- ercise that it can alone be confirmed ; and as this exercise depends in a great measure on the force with which the precepts of religion and virtue recur to the mind , it ...
... dear to my affections : • but it is by constant and habitual ex- ercise that it can alone be confirmed ; and as this exercise depends in a great measure on the force with which the precepts of religion and virtue recur to the mind , it ...
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... dear Lady Elizabetlr , that you have never learned to connect the idea of dulness , with subjects that are in their nature serious . Were it not for my knowledge of this favour- able circumstance , I should scarcely dare to hope for ...
... dear Lady Elizabetlr , that you have never learned to connect the idea of dulness , with subjects that are in their nature serious . Were it not for my knowledge of this favour- able circumstance , I should scarcely dare to hope for ...
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